Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cure for cancer or the solution to the energy crisis might some day lie in the heads and hands of those black students whom we whites are anxious to deny a decent education...
...divide them artificially would risk duplication, inefficiency and-more serious-the possibility of intelligence gatherers and clandestine operators bumping into each other and being discovered. For the Pentagon to oversee covert actions, as Harris suggests, would give the military a license to initiate paramilitary adventures. That might be a cure worse than the disease. Since clandestine operations are justifiable chiefly as a means of heading off full-scale conflict-what Colby calls "an alternative between diplomatic protest and sending in the Marines"-they should be kept separate from the Defense Department...
...turn of the century, hucksters sold worm syrup and other nostrums to cure everything from rheumatism to cirrhosis. Back in 1908, the government succeeded in banning a headache remedy containing a toxic acid and bearing the beguiling name of Cuforhedake-Brane-Fude. The Food and Drug Administration, which was formally established in 1931, has stamped out such gross quackery. But now many concerned scientists are beginning to wonder whether the FDA has become so cautious in its repression of quack cures and unsafe medicines that it is in some danger of stamping out or at least slowing the development...
...also a modest exporter, probably in the 1980s, pumping oil revenues into its sick economy, wiping out its balance of payments deficit and reversing 30 years of economic decline. Critics say the oil will afford no such panacea; they assert that Britain's problems run deeper than any cure offered by the North Sea. But even they concede that the oil could bring an important economic pick...
Despite years of research, doctors have found neither the causes nor a universal cure for cancer, which will strike 665,000 people and kill some 365,000 this year in the U.S. alone. Still, they are making significant progress against the disease. The American Cancer Society has announced that the incidence of several major cancers has dropped dramatically in recent years and that survival rates for those stricken with several forms of cancer are improving...