Word: bettereds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Explaining this sympathy requires one of those shoe-on-the-other-foot tales. Perhaps dog-bites-dog is a better label. Like many Washington-based agents for large news organizations, I am mentioned in other publications now and then. Our work is parsed by press critics; we get into contretemps with the powerful; we serve as filler for the growing number of gossip columns. All this is, in principle, legitimate. Those who groan reflexively when needled or critiqued simply confirm the aphorism about journalistic skins being thinner than the average American adult's. What stokes my personal...
...catastrophe on I-880, the loss of life was remarkably small considering the area's population and the power of the tremor. If last week's quake was a dress rehearsal for police, rescue workers, support services and citizens, they performed admirably. And they learned enough to be even better prepared for that long-dreaded day when the earth trembles again...
...struggle because some of the district party bosses were against him. The Central Committee was not unanimously for him." Still, Krenz is regarded by the other 20 members of the Politburo as the best they have to offer. Krenz, who is more animated and garrulous than Honecker, is also better attuned to the television age. He ordered up a camera crew to record his exit from the Central Committee session at which he was promoted, and six hours after Honecker's resignation, Krenz addressed the nation on live...
...respected researcher who was one of the first to use cyclosporine may have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a new drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences...
...What better month for an Indian politician to seek re-election than November? The harvest and festival seasons have just ended, leaving voters in an ebullient mood, and the weather is tolerable. No wonder, then, that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi last week scheduled national elections for Parliament's lower house late next month, seven weeks earlier than necessary...