Word: batch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...consensus Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky last year appointed a special committee of inside and outside scholars to advise the department and President Bok, who has final say on all tenure decisions. As well as generating the previous offers, this group was instrumental in forming the current batch department members said yesterday...
...Washington Post, an unidentified collector of campaign memorabilia had gone to Reagan headquarters in Arlington, Va., after the election to seek souvenirs. He was told that everything had been tossed out, but he was welcome to rummage in the trash cans. He filled a box with a batch of papers and last week showed some of them to the Post. They provided ostensible verification of a report by TIME White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett in his new book on Reagan that "a mole" had operated in the White House to help Reagan's campaign staff...
...state's agencies on missions against inefficiency. To tackle the problem at the federal level, Reagan appointed a similar task force early last year under the direction of J. Peter Grace, 70, chairman of the conglomerate W.R. Grace & Co. Last week the group made public its final batch of findings. Its pointed revelations of wasteful practices were greeted within the Administration with much of the awkward dismay a doomsayer might feel upon being told his prophecies are true...
...were similiar to those of patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which usually affects the elderly. Dr. William Langston speculated that the cause might be something in the heroin that the victim used. The doctor and his team were able to track down others who had used the same batch of the drug and found similar reactions. Through a chance conversation with another doctor, help from police, and tips resulting from a newspaper story, Langston uncovered other cases and obtained samples of the bad drug...
...article in a medical journal about a chemist who had killed himself after contracting Parkinson's-like symptoms from a dose of artificial heroin. From a report analyzing the dead chemist's brain, Langston found that the heroin involved contained an additive similar to the one in the bad batch of heroin he had been studying. The mysterious ingredient, a chemical known as MPTP, had moved from the blood into the brain and damaged the same area affected by Parkinson's disease. No other substance is known to do that. Last April Dr. Irwin Kopin of the National Institute...