Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, when the shouting finally died down, the VA investigators and their critics were closer to agreement than they admitted. Both emphasized the proper selection of patients. The surgeons conceded that most patients with chronic but stable angina (probably indicating only one blocked coronary artery) do not need a costly bypass. Most also agreed that for victims of the severest disease, characterized by a blockage in the left main coronary artery (a condition that Effler aptly calls "the widow-maker"), surgery is all but mandatory. The same is true for patients with progressive or uncontrollable angina who have...
...sending off a distress signal. When a rescue was finally attempted, the sea and winds were so heavy that even the powerful tug could not pull the disabled giant back into the shipping lanes. One immediate result of the spill: a new determination by the French to keep closer tab on the increasingly heavy flow of oil traffic off their shores...
...best of Stella's Exotic Bird paintings come closer to it than anything he, or any other artist of his generation, has done...
Next day, the U.M.W.'s bargaining council voted for the pact by 22 to 17. The vote was closer than expected, but not close enough to dash union leaders' hopes that the contract would be ratified by the U.M.W. rank and file. In fact, although many miners were wary of the new agreement at first, at week's end they seemed to regard it as better than its two predeces sors. (The first was rejected by the bargaining council on Feb. 10; the second was voted down 2 to 1 by the miners on March 5.) Still...
...P.L.O. is not much closer now to any sort of productive settlement. According to Beirut sources, the P.L.O. leadership last week decided to return to underground warfare against Israel. The Palestinians even announced that they were resurrecting Black September, the dread group named after the month in 1970 when King Hussein brutally kicked Palestinian commandos out of Jordan. In the past, Black September has carried out assassinations of other Arabs as well as American diplomats. If the group seriously returns, it would mark a black day. for both the world and the Palestinians...