Word: williame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grant to support "Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing," a planned New York City exhibition of artworks inspired by the AIDS crisis. The show was "political rather than artistic in nature," Frohnmayer said. He cited a catalog essay that denounced North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and California Congressman William Dannemeyer, both vocal opponents of gay rights, and New York's John Cardinal O'Connor...
...dolphins in the Hyatt program are juveniles, but adult male dolphins can be rough with humans and even sexually aggressive with women, whom they can easily distinguish from men. William Evans, a former head of NMFS, worries about the risk of injury to people from the 200-kg (about 450-lb.) fast-moving mammals as they become accustomed to people. "Familiarity breeds contempt," says Evans. "I've been slammed and bammed a bit, and I know of a few trainers hurt badly enough to put them in the hospital." If dolphin swim programs avoid such potential hazards by relying...
...second shift of a more passionate nature. At home she spends five hours writing letters, preparing testimony, drafting speeches and devouring all the information she can find on how and why Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, last December, killing 270 people. One of the victims was William Giebler, 29, a bond broker who had married Wendy less than a year earlier. "I have nothing else left to live for," says Giebler, who transformed her grief into action. "This is what I consider my career...
...letter to Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci read to the council, Commissioner of Public Works William Sommers said the 25-year-old tree had come under attack recently, adding "it is not a pleasant sight...
...private meeting in the office of Senate President William M. Bulger (D-South Boston) will include House Speaker George Keverian '53 (D-Everett) and the chairs of the House and the Senate Ways and Means Committees...