Word: vanguardism
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...clearly unprepared for a sudden influx of a new population of HIV patients: middle-aged and even elderly people surviving with the disease into their later decades. Nearly 27% of people living with AIDS in the U.S. are 50 or older--a proportion that is expected to increase. This vanguard group must confront the ordinary ailments of age complicated by the extraordinary ferocity of the AIDS virus...
...comprised of American Jews who make a significant effort in their daily lives to bend U.S. foreign policy so that it advances Israel’s interests.”Their thesis was enthusiastically adopted by some embarrassing—and unwelcome—allies.One white supremacist organization, National Vanguard, reprinted excerpts from the essay and distributed them on the University’s campus along with a flyer proclaiming the dangers of interracial sex. There were also aspersions cast on the information presented in the article.For instance, Walt and Mearsheimer characterize Israeli citizenship as a “blood...
...short-selling records." Everyone remarked on Dylan's lyric gift and driving ambition. After just a few months, and before he was 20, he had scored his first professional gig in the Village (a supporting act to blues singer John Lee Hooker). Rejected by the traditional labels, Folkways and Vanguard (whose A&R man said, "We don't record freaks"), he made an odder move: being signed by legendary producer John Hammond for Mitch Miller's Columbia Records. Miller called Dylan "Hammond's folly...
...grapple with a nascent but potentially powerful medium - one they eventually tamed through trial and error. And that's a challenge and process not unlike the one facing Dare and other trailblazing digital ad agencies of today. It's an apt analogy, Collier says: "We're in the vanguard of a commercial revolution." And when it's completed, the Axe Feather website will likely seem to an audience in 50 years' time less boldly cheeky than quaintly amusing...
...terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia. Former officials like Flynt Leverett, who headed Middle East policy at Bush's National Security Council, say the prisoner-swap deal died in part because Administration conservatives, in the heady days after the toppling of Saddam Hussein, envisioned the M.E.K. as a potential vanguard force in an attempt to overthrow the Islamic regime in Tehran...