Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the new procedure, doctors insert a catheter into an artery in the patient's arm or leg. The catheter is pushed through the circulatory system to the heart. When it reaches the diseased valve, a balloon on the tip of the catheter is inflated. Once it's successfully opened the valve, the balloon is deflated and removed...
...beautiful, hilly nation with which you're bound to fall in love. The country is admittedly a little too hot but the two-day trip down through Mexico is well worth it, because Nicaragua is about to be hit with a gigantic economic shot in the arm...
...graduating from Harvard in 1976 with both an M.B.A. and a law degree, he decided to become a venture capitalist, but "there were no jobs in the field and no prospects of getting any." Then a professor introduced him to Stanley Golder, president of First Chicago's venture capital arm...
...black. Not long ago, in a nearby office, a shimmying belly dancer tried to perk up a brooding scientist who was convinced that he had lost his zest for research. Since its founding on New Year's Day 1925, Bell Labs--AT&T's peerless research and development arm--has been bubbling with creative unorthodoxy. "To work here," says one researcher, "you have to let your hair down and be a free spirit...
...have forgotten the reasons why. Open your eyes and take it in. The quiet little towns sit like drowsy dogs at the sides of the rivers. The city office buildings mirror one another in walls of blackened glass. Sing airport noises, freeway noises and broad smiles and arm-wrestling matches in a Minnesota diner with the President watching Rocky on T.V. and Bix Beiderbecke tooting blues in the corner. How about them Mets? O Kissinger. O Cher. The bellowing variety, the great mixed bag of nations. Of course we celebrate ourselves. The fact of our existence is reason enough...