Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...International AIDS Society, the Harvard professor who is slated to chair the Eighth International Conference on AIDS said that it will not be held here unless the federal government changes a policy which bars foreigners who have tested positive for the AIDS virus from entering this country without a special waiver...
Nothing wrong with that. The system for allocating research and treatment money in American medicine is archaic, chaotic and almost random anyway. Under the "Disease of the Month Club" syndrome, any disease that has in some way affected a Congressman or some relation gets special treatment. There is rough justice in this method of allocation because after a while Congressmen and their kin get to experience most of the medical tragedies that life has to offer. At the end of the day, therefore, funds tend to get allocated in a fairly proportionate...
...drawn-out tussle has left Canadians rancorous and fatigued and much of the world puzzled. At issue is the eternal Canadian problem of a balance between the special role of Quebec, the only province with an overwhelming French-speaking majority in an officially bilingual country of 26.5 million, and regions that object to having other-than-equal status in the confederation...
Other groups -- most notably Canada's 700,000 aboriginal and metis people -- insisted that they were equally deserving of special status. Said Ethel Blondin, a legislator from the Western Arctic and a Dene Indian: "There are 53 aboriginal languages and cultures we feel are equal to Quebec's -- no greater and no less...
...does the possibility influence you in a special...