Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complexity. Shilts' multifaceted portrait of the gay community, for example, is oversimplified. Though the film depicts the heated fight over closing gay bathhouses in San Francisco, the major homosexual characters are nearly all responsible public servants or saintly victims. Even Gaetan Dugas -- the Canadian flight attendant known as "Patient Zero," whom Shilts identified as a key early spreader of the disease -- is here simply a suave narcissist, not (as Shilts implies) an almost criminally reckless libertine who knowingly spread the disease...
Then what? Well . . . not all that much, if one is to judge from the precedents set by the two Hoover commissions under Truman and Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter's zero-based budgeting plan, and the Grace Commission, which reported to Ronald Reagan. Some of these efforts did produce worthwhile reforms. But all were frustrated by the realities of the Washington power game. The savvy and iron-bottomed persistence of bureaucrats in protecting their turf is nothing short of awe inspiring. So is the jealousy with which Congress guards its power to spell out for government agencies, in the most niggling detail...
...rights, called for more coverage of studies that he claims show homosexuality can be "cured" -- an assertion that both gays and health professionals widely dispute. Says Irvine: "It's a little more complicated than just saying you can prove there's a hereditary factor. The media have given zero attention to the many, many homosexuals who have gone straight. I think it's sending gays the wrong message to say you cannot change because it's something your genes have determined...
...idea of a certain number of foreigners allowed in, a fixed number each year." To guard against a return of the Albanian boat people who were sent back two years ago, the Italian navy is patrolling the Adriatic. The powerful opposition group, the Northern League, calls unabashedly for zero immigration. "There should be an end to all this false pity," says Gianfranco Salmoiraghi, a League official in Milan. "Immigrants are caught in a form of slavery, exploited by unscrupulous employers to accept lower wages, thus depriving Italians of work...
...second hand revolving around the face of a clock. They start slowly with the haunting soundtrack building wonder into the crisp imagery. Bright colors and dark backgrounds rule the screen until the characters steal the spotlight from them. But each scene, like the second hand returning to zero, ends with Swinton's friendly stare...