Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just this month, for instance, New York began to apply its new "anti-john" law, imposing stiffer penalties for prostitutes' clients (johns) who in the past usually got off with the equivalent of a traffic ticket. Early hauls have included a 69-year-old man from New Jersey, let off in deference to his age. Other offenders will not get off so lightly. For patronizing a prostitute under age 11, the term can run as high as seven years...
...fissionable materials safe-the country already handles such hazardous substances as explosives and deadly chemicals-without impinging upon personal freedoms. The U.S. decision not to sell uranium-enrichment and reprocessing technology abroad will do nothing to prevent weapons proliferation. Indeed, it will cost America its chance to control international traffic in nuclear materials. France and the Soviet Union are reprocessing nuclear fuels for shipment to other countries...
...dramatic changes in school performance, insomnia, irritability and a tendency to be involved in mishaps. Says Paulson: "Serious accidents happening to any child over six require a social evaluation of the family to see if there are family stresses provoking a child to drink poison or run into traffic...
...unusual type of pneumonia from which six garment-district patients were suffering, they sent blood samples first to the CDC laboratory in Manhattan for analysis and then to Atlanta. The CDC confirmed the diagnosis. By then two victims had died, both deliverymen, who trundle racks loaded with dresses through traffic-choked streets. Investigators looking for clues to the source of the outbreak instantly checked to see if the two worked for the same shop; they did not, but were employed on the same block. A woman worker from a third shop near by had died, probably a victim of Legionnaires...
...scrubbed down and cleansed as never before, were jubilant as air conditioning was turned on again-an event that generated a block-long sigh of relief in Macy's huge department store, which borders the district. At week's end rack carts carrying fall fashions jockeyed through traffic and pedestrians as usual. As mid-September buyers swarmed in, the garment district's business was back to normal...