Word: thicket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Academy of Sciences report warned that the AIDS epidemic "could become a catastrophe" without strong White House leadership and a campaign of education and research that would probably cost $2 billion by 1990. Whether Koop's motive was political or not, his report plunged the nation into a thicket of legal and moral questions. Is it unwise to tell third-graders about anal sex and the connection between sex, AIDS and death? Is it the proper function of a public school to push either abstinence or birth control? Is value-free sex education possible, and if not, whose values...
...countries, has staged seven epic rounds of trade talks, the most recent one dragging on from 1973 to 1979. The negotiations brought substantial reductions in tariffs, but GATT members thought it was time for another round. Reason: too many countries have circumvented the group's rules by raising a thicket of nontariff barriers, including import quotas, product standards and other obstacles to free trade. Said Leopoldo Tettamanti, the Argentine delegate to GATT: "We are in a mess...
...workplace poses one of the country's most difficult tests of employer compassion and good judgment -- and increasingly, of legal acumen. Many managers have reacted by firing AIDS sufferers outright or banning the employee from work on permanent sick leave. But now, at least partly because a thicket of lawsuits has sprung up around cases of the malady, a growing number of U.S. companies and Government agencies are trying to greet the AIDS sufferer with greater understanding and acceptance...
LEAVING GEORGE TO ponder his own confused emotions and subsequently to plunge into a thicket of despondency and heartsickness, the two women scurry back to England where Lucy conveniently becomes engaged to an eminently suitable if terribly boring young bachelor, the aptly named Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day Lewis). Things would seem to be settled to everyone's satisfaction--Charlotte is safe in the knowledge that Mrs. Honeychurch (Rosemary Leach) remains blissfully unaware of her daughter's Italian involvement, Cecil is happy to have finally found someone who will put up with his psuedo-intellectual cultural arrivism, and Lucy is home...
...concern in the medical community and society at large that death in America is too often controlled by machines rather than nature. In a sharp departure from the past, when most Americans died at home, an estimated 80% now die in hospitals or nursing homes, often surrounded by a thicket of tubes and life-extending apparatus. Public opinion surveys suggest that most Americans fear and oppose this invasion of one of life's most private moments. Last year a Louis Harris poll of 1,254 adults found that 85% thought a terminally ill patient "ought to be able to tell...