Word: swiftly
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...which provides money for AIDS treatment, Helms said the disease consumes a disproportionate amount of federal funding, considering that it is only the ninth leading cause of death in the U.S. Helms denies accusations that he is trying to stop reauthorization of the White Act altogether. Reaction was swift from Jeanne White-Ginder, the mother of the act's namesake, an Indiana teenager who died after contracting AIDS as a result of a blood transfusion. "He seems to want to blame people with AIDS for being sick. I wonder if he feels the same about Americans dying of cancer because...
...areas. Ironically, it was the cocaine death that summer of Len Bias, a promising basketball player who had recently been drafted by the Boston Celtics, that propelled Congress to act. Then Speaker Tip O'Neill, his ears ringing from the outcry of his Cambridge constituents, pressed House committees for swift antidrug legislation. "We didn't have hearings on this, which is really extraordinary," says Eric Sterling, then counsel to the House Judiciary Committee. The bill was passed without careful consideration of the issues involved...
...similar House proposal passes, the result could be a free market bazaar that would -- asbill author Sen. Larry Pressler(R-S.D.) predicted today -- "result inlower telephone rates, lower cable rates and more servicesto the American public." But a leading opponent, Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), warned that such swift and massive deregulation would only strengthen telecommunications giants.TIME's Suneel Ratansays the bill constitutes a grand, laissez-faire experiment with a $700 billion industry. The result may be more choice and cheaper service, but of a different sort, says Ratan -- "like when shopping malls replace downtown stores: you have more...
From novels about the period, I later discovered there was a lot of sex going on. My naivete at the time was--well--impenetrable. I was by no means unrepresentative. Years later it dawned on me who had been doing what with whom. If you got caught, punishment was swift and severe. A friend of mine, spotted with her finance at a hotel one day before vacationended, was suspended...
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