Word: comas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colombo family's public pronouncements constituted a weak, improbable case. As Colombo lay in a coma, Mafia and law-enforcement officials awaited developments in what was certainly the opening round of a new Mob conflict. In the past, the emergence of a boss of bosses like Gambino has usually resulted in a war. The modern Mafia was reorganized in the 1930s, and the Commission was established after bloody battles to curb the power of a single leader. Gambino's assertion of leadership?quite apart from the Colombo family's need for revenge?makes it possible that a full-scale battle...
...cancer; in Garden City. N.Y. A major contributor to the study of amino-acid chemistry and kidney function. Van Slyke applied innovative analytical methods to both clinical and investigative medicine. He was known primarily for his work leading to the detection of acidosis (a condition often leading to diabetic coma) and his studies of kidney disease...
...Tories and that three out of every four Britons are dissatisfied with the government's inability to control rising prices. Given the profoundly anguished mood of many Britons today, the question may be: Will Heath's shock therapy cure the patient or send him into a coma...
...committee issued a report defining death as the point at which the brain stops functioning. A patient in irreversible coma could be considered dead under this definition, even though his heart and lungs were working fine...
Crities say the definition would make it easier for doctors to give dying patients, in need of transplants, vital organs from patients who are alive under current laws, by pronouncing them in an irreversible coma. After the organs have been removed, of course, the patients would cease breathing and heart action would stop...