Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...represented to him that he was the victim of bad luck and bad fortune, and she could cure him of it," O'Brien said...
...began visiting Miss Anna, who then lived at 168 River St. in Cambridge and whose real name is Ann Collins. In hopes that she would cure his malevolence and save his family, the man paid her more than...
...This is a way to keep idle hands busy in the domestic aerospace industry, too," says Kluger. All of which hardly sits well with NASA administrator Daniel Goldin's vision for "faster, cheaper, better" space missions. And researchers who could have used the money to do something useful -- cure cancer, say, or map the human genes -- can only watch and weep...
Regarding the argument that choosing gender goes against nature: the same objection was used in earlier times by people horrified by vaccines or heart transplants, which are now completely acceptable. Every time we use medicine to cure a disease or prevent a death, we go against nature--willingly. Admittedly, sex selection for family balancing cures no disease. In fact, though, no form of babymaking solves a medical problem. Sex selection, moreover, is medically benign in comparison with most reproductive technologies. No surgery is involved, and the entire process can theoretically be performed without a physician. Children born through this process...
...spymaster, is a man who believes in strong government, and presumably felt he had to respond when his President called. The Duma confirmed him overwhelmingly, 315 votes to 63, last Friday. His appointment solves the political stalemate at the top, at least for now, but it does nothing to cure the nation's economic crisis. Primakov has not yet put forward a program, but his signals indicate a partial turn away from market reforms and toward more state intervention in the economy. That is not what the U.S. and the bankers of the West were hoping...