Word: recoiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the dismal polling numbers, the President's advisers point out that a majority of the public supports his goal of universal coverage, even though many of the same people recoil when asked whether they endorse the Clinton plan. In the TIME/CNN poll, 61% say the government should guarantee health care for all Americans. Support for universal coverage has remained fairly consistent, even as interest groups opposed to the Clinton plan have spent millions of dollars campaigning against it. Says Lorrie McHugh, a White House spokeswoman on health care: "People don't realize it's the Clinton plan they like...
...know -- or, in the words of the Pentagon, they would rather not ask and they would rather that gays didn't tell. When confronted with the likelihood that at least some of their children, or those of relatives or close friends, will grow up gay, even liberal parents recoil in dismay. Verline Freeman, 31, a word processor in New York City, describes herself as "tolerant" and says she has gay friends. Yet she objects to her sons, 13 and 6, being taught about homosexuality in school, and has never discussed it at home. "It probably is important...
...large-spirited American not like Las Vegas, or at least smile at the notion of it? On the other hand, how can any civilized person not loathe Las Vegas, or at least recoil at its relentlessness...
...Tested for HIV+?" and "Hearing the Results," which explain how to get tested and how to tell others the outcome. MTV Europe offers the human angle, profiling a day in the life of a "Buddy," a young volunteer who cares for an AIDS patient. And Asian parents may recoil in shock when MTV Asia broadcasts safe-sex information to their kids from a Thai condom factory...
...Colorado case had little to do with gays. Homosexuality is not my favorite topic. I regard it as a misfortune because it prevents one from sharing in valuable human experiences, but there are other, worse misfortunes. Although I do regard homosexual practices as shameful, I do not recoil in horror at them. I think I understand the ambivalence of gays toward conventional morality--sometimes flaunting their scorn for it, sometimes wanting it on their side. Here is a very human contradiction...