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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The trial's volunteers were all men who had failed to respond to conventional AIDS therapy, including AZT, so far the only FDA-approved drug for treating the AIDS virus. To obtain accurate readings on Compound Q's effectiveness, volunteers were asked to stop using any other approved or unapproved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guerrilla Drug Trials: The Underground Test Of Compound Q | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

The Democrats' proposals to allow early IRA withdrawals to fund tuition or buy a first home, however, would complicate the now simple IRA, raise the potential for abuse and reduce the amount ultimately saved for retirement. Congress might better allow IRAs to be pledged as collateral on education loans and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Angles Listen Up, Tax Tinkerers: Let's Be Fair | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

But nothing has been so devastating as crack. By one count there are 365,000 American babies who were exposed to drugs in the womb, two-thirds of them the victims of crack. Unlike earlier street drugs, crack has lured at least as many women as men, with corrosive effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Nobody's Children | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

On their mantel, Frank and Dante keep a silver-framed picture of their adopted son Alex, who was ten months old when he died of AIDS-related pneumonia last year. If Mickey too succumbs, they will consider adopting another child with AIDS. "I think we were called to take care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Nobody's Children | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

But even when adoptive parents come forward, the foster-care and adoptive system can keep the children tantalizingly out of reach. Designed to be a short-term arrangement ending in either adoption or the child's return to a competent parent, foster care has become a kind of indeterminate sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Nobody's Children | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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