Word: barre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange ailment that triggered the new concern is a disorder of the nervous system called GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome. Named for the French doctors who described it in 1916. it begins with paralysis in the legs and may gradually spread upward to the hands and arms and the rest of the body. Most people eventually recover (the death rate is 5%), but if the breathing muscles are seriously impaired, a respirator may be needed during the critical period. No one knows what causes the paralyzing nerve inflammation, though the syndrome seems to strike more often after...
Officials of the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control (CDC) were first alerted when a number of states reported a disturbing trend: GuÍllaÍn-Barré syndrome seemed to be occurring with greater frequency among people who had been inoculated than among those who had not. A quick survey confirmed their fears: only one out of every five Americans (nearly 40 million) had received their swine-flu shots. Yet, of the 107 suspected paralysis cases in 18 states, more than half-at least 58 people, including six who later died-had been inoculated...
...Northern Ireland, Merlyn Rees-the man responsible for maintaining peace in the province -called the murders "the worst single sectarian killing in Ulster history." Rees was immediately pushed to take action to halt the terrorism and restore confidence in the government's ability to maintain security. Glen Barr, a spokesman for the Ulster Defense Association, warned that Protestant paramilitary groups are under "intense pressure" from the rank and file to go on an all-out military offensive against...
...Pamela Barr, cello, and Randall Hodgkinson, piano, play Bach, Beethoven, Boccherini, Haydn. Ellot Library...
Another issue:. How did IBM achieve its pre-eminent position? The Government says it used predatory tactics. Barr retorted in court last week that the company's success resulted simply from "better products, greater productive efficiency, better service, right judgments about the future at key periods of time and the willingness [of management] to back those judgments." To support its claim that its triumphs have been based on quality, IBM is likely to call as witnesses purchasing agents of its biggest (between $4 billion and $6 billion annually) customer: the U.S. Government itself...