Word: contradictions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much of what the critics say is based on secret documents and firsthand experience, and will be hard for the government to refute. People's Deputy Yuri Voronezhtsev, from Byelorussia, near Chernobyl, says medical records contradict the official claim that iodine was given to all of those exposed to radiation in order to prevent the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland. Another Byelorussian, writer Ales Adamovich, says local officials ignored the appeals of a physicist to evacuate the area until he showed them that party headquarters itself was contaminated...
...term "unethical bidding war"--really the crux of the public-good argument--deserves a strong airing out. First assume its validity. How does the protection of undergraduate financial aid justify the possibility that schools collude in setting faculty labor costs together, a separate issue involving separate individuals? Can we contradict collusion charges when the most expensive schools jointly hike costs faster than inflation? Further, how can it be ethical to set a common price--the Ivy League schools with the exception of Cornell all cost between $19,000 and $19,500--when housing costs, facilities costs and research costs almost...
...breast-cancer rate of those who were not on replacement therapy. The women on estrogen and progestin had a higher rate -- about four times as many cases of breast cancer after they used the combination for six or more years. Medical experts point out that parts of this report contradict some earlier evidence and that data on many more women must be collected before the Swedish results are either confirmed or refuted. Nonetheless, the study injects new doubts into the already difficult choices that women must make concerning which hormones, if any, to take...
...lives for us. Union leadership must serve, not usurp, membership authority. We must empower our leaders to represent us, not replace us. If we will only do as we are told on union matters, we do not deserve a voice in those matters. If we wait for permission to contradict our leaders, we do not deserve democracy. And if our leaders ever tell us that questioning issues and thinking for ourselves is disloyal to the union, they should be summarily booted...
...second act seems like the product of a very sick mind and is weird beyond all expectations. Neuroses become paranoia. Fantasies start to impose on reality. Symbols start to contradict themselves. And finally, reality explodes. As Andy points out, "Nothing is what it is. No one is who he seems...