Word: brigham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Mission Hill residents expressed anger about the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital's approval Monday of an 18-month lease for a gene-splicing research facility in that town which will be operated by Genetics Institute (GI), a commercial gene-research organization...
...Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) will decide next week whether to grant G.I. the non-renewable 18-month lease. Stanley Burschfield, vice president of BWH said this week...
...Mormon history the year 1844 is decisive killed in Illinois, and his disciples were plunged into turmoil. After months of arguing, Brigham Young convinced a majority of the flock it was Smith's will to give control to an inner council called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As its head, Young succeeded Smith as Prophet. Ever since, the presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has passed to the senior Quorum member...
...highly welcome acquisition since it fortifies a major tenet of faith. In an official statement, President Smith and other leaders of the Reorganized Church said that the document "confirms the historical view" it has always held about the church succession. Historian D. Michael Quinn, of the Mormons' own Brigham Young University, put it even more bluntly: the terms of the blessing "mean only one thing in the Mormon Church, that Joseph Smith III would be president of the church...
...months of 1979 to a hospital at the Boston University Medical Center, 290 suffered almost 500 medical mishaps. More than 200 of these complications were due to drugs. An additional 175 resulted from other treatments or diagnostic tests. These mishaps contributed to the death of 15 patients. At the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Surgeon Nathan Couch and colleagues reviewed the cases of 5,612 patients admitted for surgery in 1978 and 1979. According to Couch, medical mishaps (costing at least $1.3 million in extra care) occurred in 36 patients, leading to serious physical impairment in five people...