Word: unlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must be equipped with transponders that automatically report altitude to the control tower; only about half of all private planes are currently outfitted with such devices. Edmund Pinto, senior vice president of the 260,000-member Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, said that "the whole system won't work unless the control system is modernized." Currently, a $12 billion plan to upgrade the nation's air- traffic operations is two years behind schedule...
Last week a committee of 28 biologists, clinicians, public-health scientists and other experts assembled by the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences gave some grim answers. AIDS, according to the panel's 374-page report, "could become a catastrophe" unless the spread of the killer virus is checked. That will require "perhaps the most wide-ranging and intensive efforts ever made against an infectious disease," specifically research and education programs that would probably cost $2 billion a year, at the minimum...
...risk of AIDS increases with the number of sexual partners a man or woman has: the more partners, the greater the chance of repeated exposure to an infected person. Koop goes so far as to say that "unprotected" intercourse between even a steady couple poses a risk unless the pair knows with "absolute certainty" that they have been mutually faithful for at least five years...
People like this seldom make it into print nowadays unless they are lumped in with the latest unemployment figures or, even worse, written up in the police blotters of local papers. Dubus may have decided that such wasted lives are America's fault; he may even be right. But the case made by his fiction is far more complex and intriguing. In Rose, a nameless middle-age narrator starts chatting casually about a fellow habitue of Timmy's, a neighborhood bar in a town, once again in Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River. Her name is Rose; she is disheveled, disreputable...
...range and scope of electronic trading increases, so may the regulatory headaches. Says Gary Lynch, the Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement chief: "The internationalization of the markets is a huge potential problem unless regulators are prepared to cooperate." Since May, the SEC and U.S. commodity-exchange regulators have signed memorandums of understanding with Japan and Britain, agreeing to share information in trading-fraud cases...