Word: arthur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...multibillion-dollar debts of more than two dozen nations gave international financiers a severe fright. It was also a year in which the first artificial heart began pumping life inside a dying man's chest, a year in which millions cheered the birth of cherubic Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Britain, and millions more rooted for a wrinkled, turtle-like figure struggling to find its way home to outer space...
Every parent quietly notes the occasion, but when William Arthur Philip Louis, the future King of England, turned six months old, Mom and Dad invited the press and TV cameras. Inundated during her travels around the country with requests for more baby photos, Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, convinced his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, that in addition to her traditional Christmas TV broadcast, there should be one of Sweet William to satisfy the interest of his future subjects...
...Post Office, Washington, D.C. Snatched from the bulldozers, this imposing, romanesque pile of granite on Pennsylvania Avenue has been recycled by Arthur Cotton Moore Associates, architects, to house a festive market for tourists and offices for the National Endowments for the Arts and the Humanities and others...
...Arthur M. Godfrey New York City
...positive of the mechanism involved," say Drs. Arthur Neinhuis and Timothy Ley of the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Hematology Branch. The scientists speculate that, basically, the drug works by stripping genes of chemicals that have repressed their activity, allowing them to switch on again. The genes affected are those that produce hemoglobin for the developing fetus. These fetal genes turn off around birth as other genes take over to produce hemoglobin for human life outside the womb. Scientists still do not know why there are two sets of genes for making hemoglobin...