Word: conducted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...further charged with mixing blood samples and sending them to the United States Attorney’s office—to prove that his patients had the covered disease—after the office started an investigation into his conduct...
...Such security issues may pose some of the trickiest challenges for the new government. Key leaders of the UIA, such as Abdelaziz Hakim of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, have made clear they want to conduct a wholesale purge of the security forces to weed out former Baathists. But in the past year Prime Minister Allawi has quietly reversed the U.S. policy of ?de-Baathificiation,? which he viewed as dangerous mistakes. A renewed push to purge former Baathists could create further tensions that would play into the hands of the insurgency...
That's no fluke, according to a small group of doctors who have reported similar successes at research centers around the world. The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is sufficiently intrigued that it has asked the New York institute and three other groups to conduct a rigorous study of 240 depressed patients, comparing the effects of magnetic stimulation against a placebo. "Within the next few years, we'll have a better idea of whether rTMS is safe and effective for depression," says Dr. Sarah Lisanby, who is leading the study at the institute. There is also growing interest...
...OUSTED. HARRY C. STONECIPHER, 68, CEO of aerospace giant Boeing, brought back from retirement to restore the image of the company that was tainted by controversies over how it obtains defense contracts; after admitting to an extramarital affair with a female executive; in Chicago. Boeing called the affair improper conduct on the part of the married Stonecipher, a point on which the former CEO agreed. "I used poor judgment," he said...
...right now, if not for University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Controversy erupted in January after word spread among students and alumni at Hamilton College in New York that Churchill, who had been invited to speak there, had penned an essay equating U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany's conduct in World War II and labeling some of the people working in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," after the architect of the Holocaust. Hamilton canceled Churchill's engagement, but the furor spread. Outraged Colorado house members unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "evil and inflammatory" words. Colorado Governor Bill...