Word: containers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here a league of conservative doctors plays with the viral equivalent of nuclear weapons in order to preserve its market share. The petit Dr. Blumenthal discovers the Hippocratic hypocrisy only after she is turned into a composite of Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman, crisscrossing the country to study and contain flare-ups of EHF. Cook's best-selling technique is infallible: he lowers his readers' resistance with hard science, then exposes them to the woman-in-jeopardy scenes and chase sequences that spread his infectious tale to the moviegoing population...
...just the atoms that are touching, as in a white dwarf, but their nuclei. Under the immense pressure, the electrons, no longer able to repel one another, are squeezed into the nuclei, which ordinarily contain just protons and neutrons. In about a thousandth of a second, the negatively charged electrons combine with positively charged protons to form additional neutrons; the process also produces the ethereal neutrinos, which effortlessly zip through the star's outer layers and into space. Under these circumstances, there is a limit to how much the neutrons can be compressed. As gravity tightens its grip further...
...symptom boards contain more than 4,000 red dots, each denoting an alleged plaintiff ailment. Dr. Bertram W. Carnow, director of environmental medicine at the University of Illinois, spent 76 days on the witness stand -- at a fee of $3,000 a day to his Chicago health-consultancy firm -- putting the dots up as expert witness for the plaintiffs, contending the ills the dots represent could be dioxin-related. Monsanto's rebuttal expert, Dr. James R. Webster, chief of medicine at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, is now in the process of disputing Dr. Carnow, dot by dot, testifying that...
...reform eliminated interest deductions on most forms of consumer credit except for loans on first and second homes, but the lawmakers left a large loophole for wealthy seafarers. Yacht owners can still treat their floating pleasure palaces as second homes if they contain a head and a galley (toilet and kitchen, to landlubbers) and sleeping facilities. Skippers can deduct the interest on loans used to buy their craft or obtain a yacht-equity credit line to cover the purchase of, say, a Rolls-Royce. "Aristotle Onassis would have loved this," fumes Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a member...
...contain the P. L. O. and radical Shi' ites...