Word: harbored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasingly disillusioned with his career, largely for reasons ranging from longer work hours and frozen pay levels to the growing powerlessness of captains to make their own judgments. A week before the oil spill, Hazelwood told a friend that he was thinking about taking a job as a harbor pilot on the Columbia River in Oregon...
...still blue, but the land had caught the shadow, and the sea looked almost dark. Dark shadows blackened the water, and the lights of the harbor were lit and shimmered on the surface of the sea like oil. All the substance began to run from the colors; finally, only the black of the shadows and the white of the lights remained...
...from government to the church and the press to advertising, virtually ignore their existence. "America is not only reluctant to recognize news events or address public issues concerning gays, it also refuses to educate citizens on the nature of homosexuality itself," write the authors. Americans, they hold, continue to harbor distorted perceptions. Among them: people choose to be gay, homosexuals are kinky sex addicts and child molesters, they are untrustworthy and antifamily, and they are suicidally unhappy. Such social attitudes give tacit approval to bigoted behavior, from antigay jokes to violence...
...Friday, the Greek tanker World Prodigy struck a rock at Brenton Reef, just south of Newport, R.I., spewing about 600,000 gal. of fuel that immediately began drifting toward Newport Harbor. A few hours later, a tanker collided with an oil-filled barge near Houston, releasing 250,000 gal. of oil. Then, shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, a tanker from Uruguay ran aground in the Delaware River just south of Claymont, Del., causing a discharge of up to 1.6 million gal. of industrial fuel...
Researchers have known for some time that people may harbor the AIDS virus without showing symptoms or even producing telltale antibodies. But the duration of such latent infections has been uncertain. Now a study has shown that some people may carry the AIDS virus for three years or longer without its being detected by widely used antibody screening tests. If the results are confirmed, they could mean that latent AIDS infection is more common than was once believed...