Word: assists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external pumps called ventricular assist devices, which are ordinarily used singly to help heart patients recover after surgery. When used in pairs, VADs can take over the work of both the left and the right pumping chambers and serve as a complete artificial heart...
Graduate students assist in smaller brownstone residences that are not as susceptible to alcohol related problems as are the crowded high-rise residences...
Fish expects to have several of his top Harvard players and many other national amateur squash stars assist with training on the tour...
Sixty-one seconds later, Paul Nicholas picked up his second assist of the night when he fed Frank Gifalco with a great lead pass which Singh slammed by Stanoch into the far corner of the goal...
...around the world who have taken up arms to resist Communist-imposed governments in Afghanistan, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Nicaragua. That forced them and their allies to deploy 300,000 of their troops to occupy other countries. The Soviets spend some $12 billion a year around the world to assist their allies in military and economic aid: $4 billion goes to Cuba every year, Afghanistan costs them $4 billion and Viet Nam, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia and Nicaragua take the rest. Since 1979 they have lost 750 planes in Afghanistan, mainly on the ground. The guerrillas now control twice as large...