Word: blows
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...come to the aid of the Krajina has caused bitterness among both his own people and the vengeful refugees flowing into Serbia. The Bosnian Muslims are both better off and worse off than they were before: the Croats, with whom they are allied, have dealt their enemy a serious blow; the Croats have also liberated Bihac, a Bosnian town that the Serbs besieged for 1,201 days; at the same time, however, the Muslims are wary that Croatia may want to carve out a large swath of Bosnia for itself...
While McCorvey was arguably never the voice of the revolution she began, the fact that she has defected from her cult status as revolutionary is a terrible blow to many advocates of women's rights. Even if McCorvey's change of mind won't overturn the decision of 1973, the country has lost one important liberal hero to the ranks of the ever-strengthening Right...
...initial speed of 2 m.p.s. and then subsiding toward the speed of sound. Shock waves were the principal threat of conventional bombs, but Little Boy achieved a new order of destructive power. Unleashing the equivalent of 12,500 tons of TNT, it essentially flattened Hiroshima in one blow: only 6,000 of the city's 76,000 buildings were undamaged; 48,000 of them were entirely destroyed. Practically every window and mirror in the city splintered, hurling shards of glass into the bodies of anyone nearby. The explosion started more fires outside the central ring of devastation, as flammable houses...
...BLOW TO ALL HOSPITALS...
Your report "Teaching Hospitals in Crisis" correctly presents the situation faced by the nation's hospitals [MEDICINE, July 17]. In the midst of their economic struggle for survival, Congress has proposed reducing the growth of Medicare payments for patient care. While such a blow would diminish the financial strength of all hospitals, teaching hospitals could face the knockout punch of additional targeted reductions in Medicare's support for their medical-education activities. The triple whammy of the competitive marketplace, reduced Medicare reimbursements and significantly decreased federal support for medical education and research could force teaching hospitals to abandon their academic...