Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Jacobs is open-minded and urges his colleagues to be the same, he feels strongly that alternative methods need more thorough testing and cautions patients not to abandon traditional treatment. Harvard's Eisenberg agrees. "It is conceivable," he says, "that physical manipulation or acupuncture needles or active ingredients in particular remedies are in fact physiologically powerful. But if for certain patients, in certain instances, faith or belief can cause changes in physiological function in a reproducible way, then we have to bring together the best scientists and ask them to figure out why.'' That search is expected to take...
...Celtics: The local basketball team did abandon its historic home last year. So going to see a game isn't quite as neat as it was when the Celtics played on the parquet floor at the Boston Garden. But if you're a sports fan, your four-year tenure in the Boston area won't be complete without a trip to see Larry Bird's team...
...credit for his remarkable capacity for empathy, for his off-the-cuff eloquence, for his intelligence and sincere dedication to public policy. And he probably doesn't have a friend in the world who wouldn't concede, in private, his excessive appetites, his "slickness," his too-easy willingness to abandon people and principles...
...happy to volunteer to Senator Dole a first draft of an acceptance speech, and he then made it his own...In the end the legitimate and understandable requirements of political speechwriting did not mesh with the principles of my profession, which I can in no circumstances abandon. So I stood down, without rancor...
...vacation where I didn't have to worry about being ripped limb from limb by some big ursine slob. But there it is, at any trailhead worth carting your trail mix up to--the National Park Service sign saying CAUTION, YOU ARE ENTERING BEAR COUNTRY. Abandon greasy foods and perfumes, all ye who enter here! Or: Bye-bye, rule of law; hello, natural selection...