Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...involved in more than 30,000 deaths each year and drug gangs sport arsenals that a small army might envy, that militantly progun position has put the National Rifle Association at odds with the majority of Americans. To its opponents, the N.R.A. is the Darth Vader of special-interest groups, a force of 2.8 million members who can launch a tidal wave of constituent letters toward any legislator who ventures a word in support of gun control. Speaking before Congress last year, James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded during John Hinckley's 1981 shooting...
Deale said Roberts promised to give him further details after the next Overseers meeting on February 4. One possible compromise would call for the committee's letter to be included in a special issue of the Harvard Gazette rather than sent out with the ballots, Deale said...
...analysts question whether the changes wrought by AIDS activists harm basic research, the public health and perhaps even those who are at risk of acquiring the virus. Says Joel Hay, a health economist and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution: "Things are out of whack." Three areas merit special concern...
...Germany is different from Hungary and Poland," says Astrid, 26, a nurse. "We were fighting for something special. We want real socialism, like the socialism we learned in school...
...findings intensify earlier warnings that drinking holds special risks for women. Labels on liquor bottles and placards in some restaurants and bars already caution that for a pregnant woman to drink can cause serious birth defects in her baby, including physical deformities and mental retardation. The new research indicates that women who are not pregnant need to take heed as well...