Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of such an undertaking would presumably reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars. But Hannah and Hudson have trimmed expenses to the bone and are projecting start-up costs no higher than $20 million to $30 million. So far, the firm has spent $1.2 million gearing up, with most of the money coming from Hannah and a group of wealthy Texas backers, who have each contributed at least $100,000 to the venture. Additional financing will obviously depend on whether the space entrepreneurs can convince customers that they can deliver the goods...
COST members are riled most by what they regard as educational frills and extras in the budget, which the board of education insists has already been "cut to the bone." Among the budget items that rankle most: $23,000 for art-instruction supplies, $13,000 for a gymnasium divider net, $3,600 for a color TV and video taping system...
...discovery that made the biggest headlines--in Boston, where it was lauded, as well as in Los Angeles, where its originality was challenged--concerned the induction of bone growth in humans. Announced at the beginning of May, "osteoinduction," a technique advanced by surgeons and researchers at the Medical School, uses bones from crushed cadavers to prompt bone regeneration. Since cadaver bones are easier to obtain than bone from a patient's body, osteoinduction should prove 100-per-cent effective, 35 per cent better than the old process...
...most extensive use of demineralized bone taken from humans (and possibly some day from animals) may be to treat accident victims or people who are losing jawbone because of periodontal disease or tooth loss. But the researchers caution that the procedure is still experimental and must undergo more clinical tests before it comes into widespread use. Says Mulliken: "We just don't know how strong the bone is going to be." Adds Oral Surgeon Leonard Kaban: "We are trying to go very slowly with this. We don't want it to be a case of the emperor...
Brooklyn, 1945. The Pollacks are bone-poor. They lead lives of congealed desperation, though their dialogue sometimes glints with the leapfrog logic of Allen's idiosyncratic humor...