Word: affliction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Pipes' comparison between cancer and nuclear war is seriously flawed. Cancer strikes a minority of our population. Many victims recover. Nuclear war would afflict us all, and none would survive...
...exchange the order of the numbers in an addition problem without changing the answer to the problem." According to Gerry Murphy, head of the math department at Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., Saxon also tries to confront two fundamental weaknesses that afflict most Algebra I texts: the lack of a sense of continuity and connection among topics, and student failure to remember the material already covered. Saxon presents the material in small linked units, without the traditional division into chapters. Saxon treats the problem of retention by the obvious and old-fashioned device of a large number of daily cumulative...
...impotence related to physical problems, like diabetes. The men were given laboratory-synthesized yohimbine daily for eight to ten weeks. Ten improved, with six once again able to sustain erection and reach orgasm. The drug unexpectedly also relieves some of the numbness and prickling in the legs that frequently afflict diabetics. Unpleasant side effects were limited to temporary dizziness or gastrointestinal upset. The Canadian team is now beginning a two-year study of yohimbine vs. placebo in 120 men with impotence of organic or psychological origin...
...possible. Let GUERRILLA and other students protest for longer library hours and the other little things that Harvard can do to make life easier for them; but let them do so only after they can say with truth that they have also protested about far worse problems that afflict people everywhere...
This is the basic G.O.P. cure-all for most of the ills that afflict the nation. Say the Republicans: "American families are already paying taxes at higher rates than ever in our history; as a result of Carter's policies, the rates will go even higher." The platform calls for the Kemp-Roth cut of 30% in federal income tax rates over three years, a reduction opposed by the Democrats on the ground that the rich would save more money in taxes than the poor. The Republicans also propose indexing taxes to the inflation rate to eliminate bracket creep...