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...post-poliomyelitis muscular atrophy, an affliction that strikes many former polio patients with symptoms that in some ways mimic the original disease. Across the U.S., PPMA is affecting more and more of the 300,000 American survivors of the great polio epidemics. People who decades ago recovered enough to abandon their crutches, wheelchairs, braces and respirators are now becoming dependent on them again...
...petition fell several signatures short of its goal. In the wake of the protest, however, the Review voted to abandon its system of selecting members solely on the basis of grades, adding increased weight to a writing competition...
...research funding in general than it does about their ethical standards. Simply stated, the neglect of facilities due to a lack of federal support is bringing man, research instruction to their know. Returning to the original analogy, some university administrators may feel like the jobless citizen who abandon the accepted means of securing food for his family. An appeal to Congress may in fact be a lesser evil than allowing their research facilities to erode...
...must abandon the "false AI Joison Black face mask" and do what is right. "why did he not say" "False Amos'n Andy Black face masks"? He could have even included Gene Kelly or, generically, the Black minstrel show era. NO, these other variations on the them don't have the punch when you want to intimate, subconsciously perhaps, that a Jewish singer indulged in a form of entertainment not generally considered demeaning in Jolson's time...
...indecision." Two weeks ago, Thatcher's press secretary, Bernard Ingham, aggravated the tense situation by telling reporters that they could be "absolutely certain that we are not going to defend" a particular value of the pound. That unfortunate remark helped speed the currency's slide and forced Thatcher to abandon her hands-off policy...