Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nabisco and Philip Morris both vehemently contend that there is no proven link between smoking and diseases such as lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease. Then why do their advertising campaigns so often rely on giving the product away so people will try it? The most shameless example of such desperation advertising came when RJR-Nabisco sponsored rock concerts with famous entertainers and charged five empty cigarette packages for admission. This is reminiscent of the drug pusher who gives out samples to hook people; addicts have to supply their habits, after...
Dingman was one of the 10 speakers assembled to speak briefly about Wilson, a blind member of the class of '88 who died on September 15, 1988 at age 21, after fighting a life-long battle against cancer...
...remembered by those at the service as talented musically and intellectually. He was said to possess a braveness that allowed him to run on the cross-country team, navigate the streets of Cambridge on his own, and even to ride a bicycle despite his blindness, which was caused by cancer...
...from these efforts is expected to help in developing diagnostic tests and even cures for the 3,500 disorders such as cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell anemia that are known to be caused by genetic defects, and those in which heredity has a major influence, including heart disease and cancer...
...recent news stories have reminded the nation of Richard Nixon's ugly displays of anti-Semitism. Now comes Landslide: The Unmaking of the President: 1984-1988 by Reporters Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus. They reveal that many White House aides believed Ronald Reagan was so depressed and inattentive after cancer surgery and the Iran-contra affair last year that the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him was raised in a memo to White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker...