Word: thresholds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Here we are, poised on the threshold of widespread genetic screening that should be beneficial to people. Yet we are talking about carrying this out on a population that is largely uninformed about genetics. Those of us involved in genetic counseling are appalled by the scale of the problem...
...shatter-resistant. People are paying. The Palestinian uprising is 2 1/2 years old. It has hardened into a dreary, bitter ritual. The reciprocal stoning and beating obey Newton's Third Law of Motion -- for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Each side has found its threshold of acceptable suffering and cruelty...
...leave careers in middle gear, without making that final climb to the top. The leitmotiv of the new age: second place seems just fine. But young adults are flighty if they find their workplace harsh or inflexible. "The difference between now and then was that we had a higher threshold for unhappiness," says editor Salzman. "I always expected that a job would be 80% misery and 20% glory, but this generation refuses to pay its dues...
...province of Natal, scene of heavy fighting between rival black factions. Though those steps fulfilled more of the A.N.C.'s preconditions for negotiations, the congress has delayed a formal response until July 10. The postponement gave De Klerk an opening to tweak the A.N.C. "We are on the threshold of the real negotiation process," he said. "The A.N.C. must now stop vacillating...
...down his rhetoric since then, but he remains as addicted to controversy as a moth is to a porch light. Last month he suggested that funds for teenage welfare mothers who have more than one child be cut off. He enraged the party establishment by comparing the 15% convention threshold to the exclusionary tactics Southern white supremacists used to keep blacks out of politics...