Word: bypassers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When coronary arteries are clogged, smaller arteries expand to take over some of the blood flow. A new drug, still unnamed, has been shown to enhance the process in dogs. If it works in humans, it could be a cheaper, safer alternative to standard bypass surgery or balloon angioplasty...
...well. The test costs $60 or less and routinely identifies many who were unaware they had the virus. If those who are thus identified were to transmit the disease to only one less person on average, the suggested tests would pay for themselves much more readily than a coronary bypass, PSA tests and half the pills we pop. And society could continue to enjoy the lifelong earnings and social contributions of those whose lives would be saved...
...million have applied for the required license, but it is not easy to find the new mom-and-pop enterprises. Canadian mining executive Bill McGuinty thinks his Cuban co-workers are eager to learn capitalist ways -- up to a point. They are shocked by his attempts to bypass bureaucracy and befuddled by the quid pro quos of networking. "It will take a while for the mentality to change," he says. "They have gone from 34 years of working together to every man for himself...
...Balloon angioplasty -- inflating a tiny balloon to widen a clogged artery -- is much less expensive and dangerous than a heart-bypass operation. Unfortunately, the artery tends to squeeze shut again. But inserting a tiny wire coil to prop the artery open appears to solve the problem...
...system which allows the government to bypass banks and loan guarantor agencies, will be also implemented gradually University-wide--eventually affecting more than 7,000 students. The process is supposed to reduce costs by eliminating the fees charged by banks and other lending institutions...