Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start in life. As one of the first homeless people picked up in Mayor Ed Koch's program to take people suspected of being mentally ill off the street, Brown won a controversial test case when a judge ruled that she could not be forced to submit to treatment. The former "Billie Boggs," as she called herself, appeared on Donahue and lectured to Harvard Law School students on the plight of the homeless. She found housing in a somewhat seedy hotel in Times Square...
Together with Co-Author Dr. Robert Kolodny, who directed the research for Crisis: Heterosexual Behavior in the Age of AIDS (Grove Press), the first couple of sex treatment charge the government with "benevolent deception" in downplaying the extent and nature of the epidemic. Among their assertions...
...began courtship. That foundation was invaluable during the campaign's final fortnight. Under little pressure from his floundering opponents, Bush was able to coast on a risk-free cloud. For ten days he avoided interrogation from the national press corps following him in a separate plane, preferring the gentler treatment of local reporters...
...intercourse did not seem to matter. Says Researcher James Goedert of the National Cancer Institute: "The study demonstrates that the infected population gets more infectious as time passes, and that the level of risk increases as time goes on." That led Goedert and his colleagues to speculate that early treatment with AZT, the only approved anti-AIDS drug known to inhibit replication of the virus, may actually make AIDS less contagious. "That's among the most urgent questions we have to answer," says Samuel Broder, director of clinical oncology at the National Cancer Institute...
...civil rights, Bush would undoubtedly do far better than the Reagan Administration's backhanded treatment of black concerns. As a Republican Congressman from Texas in the 1960s, Bush broke ranks with fellow Southerners to vote for a controversial open-housing bill. His Administration would be unlikely to continue the fight against affirmative action and fair-housing suits or commit such gaffes as offering tax exemptions to segregated schools...