Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President responsibly stand by his pledge to raise taxes only as a last resort. Maybe this year he'll be able to reach his reduction targets by paring welfare programs down to the bone, but what will he shave when nothing's left? Reagan says he wants to reduce the deficit by $85 billion in 1987 and $110 billion in 1988, but gives no indication of where the extra savings is going to come from...
...pump, and the $3,000 or so per year that it would have cost him to run the system if he had survived). The prices for other organs are comparable. A liver transplant costs $135,000, and a year of rehabilitation treatment can double that. Bone-marrow transplants...
...martyred priest's body reported that he had been savagely beaten. A rope had been tied around his neck, wrists and ankles so that he would strangle himself if he struggled to get free. Three fingers of Popieluszko's left hand were sliced through to the bone, and there were deep gouges on his arms. His lungs contained enough water to indicate that he was still breathing, even if unconscious, when he was tossed, bound hand and foot, into a reservoir...
...fight so much for every little thing. I was born bone lazy, so I have developed a system of dividing things into most important, important, less important, and I fight only for the first, sometimes if I am very fit and energetic for the second as well...
Thus far, more than 70 bones and fragments have been attributed to WT 15000. No two are duplicates and all are of the same stage of maturity, indicating that they belonged to the same individual. The only missing pieces of the skeletal puzzle are the hominid's left arm and hand, the right arm from the elbow down, and most of both feet. Leakey hopes to unearth those fragments next summer. The only other known near complete Homo erectus was discovered in 1975 by Leakey across Lake Turkana from the present dig. But that hominid had suffered from...