Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another casualty of the Administration's pro-life offensive is Government support for research on in-vitro fertilization, in which eggs are extracted from a woman's ovaries, fertilized in a glass dish, then implanted in the donor's womb. Next week a House subcommittee will release a report charging that the Department of Health and Human Services has shied away from funding research on "test-tube fertilization" because of pressure from right-to-life groups. As a consequence, the discovery of new techniques to make the procedure more reliable and lower its cost (currently $6,000 for each attempted...
...declared in Poland in 1981. Among the 30,000 new Polonians to arrive in Chicago were cosmopolitan intellectuals who found they had little in common with their predecessors. "Polka is not a Polish dance," laughs Bozena Nowicka, who teaches Polish at Loyola University. "Pirogen is not a noble dish. Polish America is an archive for a culture that no longer exists." In June, Nowicka and 4,500 other new Polonians lined up outside the Polish consulate in Chicago to cast their votes in the historic election back home that catapulted Solidarity leaders into a position of power...
...good on his threat to get rid of "the bone in my throat" -- partitioned Berlin. But he had not anticipated what would happen on that warm August afternoon in 1961 when he set out from Hyannis Port, Mass., on the yacht Marlin loaded with family and his favorite picnic dish, fish chowder...
...provide officers with important information when they need it -- before they hit the streets," says co-anchor Maffett, 1983's Miss America. The network also serves up half-hour instruction programs with names like Street Beat, Command Update and Alert, Alive & Well. Relying on 50 experts nationwide, the shows dish out training information on everything from shooting techniques and handcuffing methods to weight-control strategies. A twelve-member news staff, with the support of a CBS feed, punctuates the broadcast day with regular five-minute bursts about the latest mayhem on the crime-and-disaster front...
...male buddies, poised at the uneasy boundary between youth and middle age, sprawl in an overdecorated apartment and dish the dirt about opera singers. None can meet their fierce standards except Maria Callas (a performance by whom provides the play's title). They admire her for blending technique and emotion and, more deeply, for enduring a sad life and lonely death. Other artists, they say, impersonate the passion and hysterics of opera; she lived them...