Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania. It was in an effort to ease the plight of such workers that President Eisenhower invited the governors' committee to the White House, presented a plan under which the states could draw federal funds to extend unemployment compensation for 13 weeks. Although the new plan included a complex formula aimed at maintaining the delicate balance of federal-state relationships, some of the governors seemed fearful of an invasion of states' rights. And, much to Ike's surprise, nearly all of them seemed unenthusiastic about the plan...
...immediate superior, Dr. John P. Hagen, director of Project Vanguard. The same line was connected to telephones manned in the White House by Press Secretary James Hagerty and Presidential Aide Andy Goodpaster, ready to pass the word to Ike. "T minus ten," said Walsh. "Clear sky on launching complex . . . Minitrack clear." Pete Aurand took a horseshoe from a paper sack, spit on it, tossed it over his shoulder...
Like many other scientists, Biochemist (no M.D.) Price believes that substances in the blood should be indicators of health and disease. But where many recent researchers have relied on enzymes for diagnosis (TIME, Jan. 14, 1957), Price picked the mucoproteins, a little-understood group of complex chemicals in which a sugarlike substance is combined with a protein. Almost the only thing known about them is that their composition changes when tissues are damaged. Price took a standard (but highly complex) fractionator. Into it he put 4 cc. (one teaspoon) of serum from the blood of his test subjects. After...
...issues were many and complex, but to the outside world, one towered over all: whether staunchly pro-Western Prime Minister Abdullah Khalil, head of the Umma (Nation) Party, would remain in power or be replaced by pro-Egyptian ex-Premier Ismail el Azhari, head of the National Unionist Party...
...never in small "preventive" doses, which probably serve mainly to encourage resistant staph strains. ¶ When an infection apparently caused by a defiant strain is detected, treat it with full doses of the most promising antibiotic. At the same time, culture the germs in the lab, and confirm (by complex tests) that the right drug is being used. Isolate the patient as far as possible...