Word: worded
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Residents of Leverett House were alerted last Friday that two computers in the House's computer lab had been infected with "W97M/Thus," a new virus that spreads through Microsoft Word files...
...allowed one bathroom break each morning and another at night. They are denied clean drinking water and clean air. They face forced overtime virtually everyday. They are forced to take birth control pills and pregnancy tests and are fired if they become pregnant. They are fired for saying the word "union." They live in shacks. They are as young...
...word "recommend" is not accidental. Clinton's decision is an imposition to the people of Puerto Rico because it will mean that bombing in Vieques will occur for the next five years. But to the Navy it is only a recommendation that any following U.S. President can disregard, because following presidents will not be bound by Friday's decision. The end of this five-year time period will coincide with the next presidential election. Conservative Americans who fervently defend U.S. military interests will be able to exert much more pressure than Puerto Ricans, since we are not a part...
...course, you will recall, Ronald Reagan's approach to AIDS education and AIDS policy was tantamount to ignoring genocide; more than 20,000 people had died by the time Reagan uttered the word AIDS in a public address. His refusal to acknowledge the epidemic in its earliest stages contributed to its becoming the major American public health catastrophe of this and perhaps any other century. Despite repeated entreaties from the Centers for Disease Control, Reagan adamantly refused to discuss the epidemic or permit any of his public health officials to do so. Implicit here was the perception that these people...
...During the question-and-answer period, Lungren was assailed for his use of the word "predator," which an audience member said demonizes the person instead of the crime, and has negative racial overtones...