Word: assists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiscal 1983 to help defense contractors expand production, and $1 billion a year thereafter. Some of the money would probably be used to design and buy Government-owned production machinery for use by defense manufacturers. The Administration is drafting a bill to clarify and broaden its powers to assist defense contractors in preparing for mobilization, but the provisions to date are hazy...
...lifelong Hawaii resident, I read with concern your article "We've Lost the 'Aloha' Feeling" [June 1]. As you reported, two teenagers recently hijacked a busload of Japanese visitors. However, you failed to mention that the community contributed more than $22,000 to assist the victims, a sum twice that lost in the robbery. Later, when the stolen cash and valuables were returned, the Japanese donated the money to a special fund to assist visitors who become victims. No, the aloha feeling has not been lost...
...against the salvos of Mansfield and his colleague James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government. "It's hard to believe it's a statistical accident" that certain departments have few women scholars. Rosovsky said, Besides, he contended, the study's proposals would not hurt Harvard's standards, but merely assist qualified minorities and women in coming here. Affirmative action, as "the policy of the land and the policy of the University," was at Harvard to stay...
...better alternative, according to some researchers, is a device that could take over temporarily for either of the two main pumping chambers of the heart, particularly the workhorse left ventricle. These assist devices shunt blood from the ventricle to a pump outside the body that sends it directly to the abdominal aorta or femoral artery to continue its natural circulation. The heart is left intact but goes on a sort of holiday, rebuilding its strength so that it can later resume its full work load. Says John C. Norman of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, who has been working...
...forward by Larry Bird, the Indiana State star who was a first-round draft choice as a junior and signed as a senior for a reported $650,000 a year. That acquisition gave the Celtics the N.B.A.'s best pair of forwards, unselfish team players who value an assist as much as a score. Says Coach Bill Fitch: "We use an equal opportunity offense. That gives us a chance to give the ball to someone who's hot. Most of the time, we spread it over nine or ten people...