Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed terribly concerned. A 1965 attempt to locate and excavate the blaze-the only way to extinguish an anthracite fire-was abandoned when local funds ran out. A number of subsequent attempts were also unsuccessful. Many townspeople assumed that if they ignored the fire it would eventually burn itself...
...With reason. The average Swedish worker must turn over about half of his earnings to finance the cradle-to-grave welfare society, and for the self-employed the tax bite frequently exceeds 85% of income. Historian Sven Stolpe was so disgusted by his tax assessment that he threatened to burn all his unpublished manuscripts. An actor even set himself ablaze last March outside Stockholm's tax office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic Labor Party after four decades of growth in Sweden's social...
There is no way any country could cope with the aftermath of a nuclear exchange, even if it could be left "limited," Lown says. In normal conditions, 20 to 30 burn victims would saturate Boston's health care facilities. Even the 200 intensive burn care beds in the United States couldn't support a fraction of Boston's burned, assuming that there was any way for rescue workers to enter the radioactive ruins to get them into the hospitals in the first place. "People would be left to die," he states...
However, the unspecified disease seemed to affect the entire tourney, not just the Harvard team. "No one played that well, not even the winners," Jon Mosle observed. "Dartmouth didn't burn up the course by any means...
About as thick as kitchen paper toweling, artificial skin is soft, pliable and handles very much like the real thing, though it is not quite so sturdy. It is draped on burn sites in patches as large as 6 in. by 10 in. Says Burke: "The nerve fibers from below, which are still alive, grow up into the new material, just like blood vessels and connective tissue. So these patients have the same kind of sensations as with a skin graft. It isn't perfect, but it is very good." The artificial dermis breaks down as new natural tissue...