Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...government's nascent benevolence had been forced on it by domestic and international pressure as well as by its desire to avoid further economic sanctions. While no one from the government notified Sisulu's wife Albertina that he was to be released, De Klerk found time to telephone British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to tell her he was freeing a group of aging black leaders as she had urged him to do. Thatcher took that news with her to the Commonwealth conference in Kuala Lumpur last week, where she opposed all proposals for additional sanctions. This malleability was something...
...this show is the wide range of characters into whom Duke ably transforms himself. Duke's expert manipulation of body language, speech patterns and facial expressions allow the audience to follow easily as he moves from one character to the next. And whether he plays Jeeves with his impeccable British accent and completely upright posture, or whether slouching and guffawing as Wooster or whether he carelessly holds a cigarette while gesticulating wildly as Florence, Duke always manages to make the audience forget that he is only one man playing a variety of roles...
...incident was all the more significant because it is part of a trend. In March British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who in the mid-1980s denounced environmental activists as the "enemy within," convened an international meeting on the depletion of the atmosphere's ozone layer, which protects the earth from harmful solar radiation. That same month the Prime Ministers of Norway, France and the Netherlands chaired a conference that proposed creation of an international authority with the power to draft and enforce environmental regulations around the world...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police took the ; unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster...