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Word: correctives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief architect, economist William C. Hsiao of the Harvard School of Public Health, said the plan is intended to correct "distorted and inequitable" fees that pay doctors too little for examining patients and too much for specific procedures and operations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Report Recommends Pay Scale Change | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...Jolla team also used SCID mice. By comparison, however, their approach was simple. Circulating white blood cells taken from human adults were injected into mice. Almost immediately, the mice began replicating the cells. Within three weeks they had human immune systems with nearly correct proportions of all the major types of white cells found in human blood. Moreover, when the researchers injected these mice with tetanus toxoid, most of the animals produced human antietanus antibodies, further proof that their new immune systems were functioning as though they were naturally human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Of Mice as Stand-Ins for Men | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...fixator to realign the bones. The contraption consisted of metal rings used to support pins that screwed the bone fragments together. When he tried to train, Bilozerchev favored his left leg so badly that he damaged the tissue in his right ankle. In December 1986 he underwent surgery to correct that problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Gym Shorts: Once and Future Champ | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

There was romance, too, on the broad, open fields of Virginia. The story of flight was re-enacted with models -- correct down to the fabric, wires and rivets -- of those old, often ungainly aircraft that took the first pioneers aloft. Larry Kruse, a dean of Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kans., launched his replica of a 1911 Voisin into the fitful afternoon breezes. An almost perfect twelve grams of craftsmanship with a 13-in. wingspan, the plane is powered by a rubber-band motor turned 2,300 times. The Voisin bucked and churned, its tiny pusher propeller sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Virginia: Winging It for the Fun of It | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

This summer I learned that neither she nor Iwas correct. Sports is not, as many have said, areflection of society. It is society. Sports islike the Southside Speedway, all awash in gray

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Summer in Richmond Shaded in Gray | 9/16/1988 | See Source »

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