Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organized by student volunteers from Eliot House, the figure skating show raises money for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute's child patients...
...protest, designed to draw attention to the rising incidence of cancer in areas of heavy pesticide use, is part of a nationwide relay effort, in which celebrities, politicians and students take turns fasting. UFW President Caesar Chavez began the fast this summer with a 36-day hunger strike before passing the protest effort to the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...event, sponsored by Eliot House, will donate all proceeds to the Jimmy Fund of the Dana Farber Research Institute. The fund is used to pay for the treatment and research of children's cancer. The show also donates 76 tickets to the Dana Farber Institute so that patients can see the show...
...bought the Oreos two weeks ago. They cost $2.97 and that will go to the company that produces Oreos--Nabisco--and help finance the sale of cancer-causing cigarettes to people on the other side of the world. It may even help finance taking the company into private hands so it is answerable to no one but itself. Until this week I had no idea buying an Oreo could have such ramifications, but that's the way the cookie crumbles...
...announced a streamlined procedure that could cut the time it takes to develop and market a new drug from eight to as little as three years. The new rules will affect only medications designed to treat seriously debilitating or life-threatening illnesses such as AIDS, some forms of cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Moreover, the regulations will probably disappoint many people because it will still take years for most drugs to pass through the agency's approval pipeline...