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Word: curely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubling question is what all these curbs on traditional British freedoms will do to cure the underlying causes of the problem. In Belfast, the killing goes on, with eleven murders recently committed within the space of just five days. There seems to be little chance that the proposed constitutional convention in January will produce an acceptable power-sharing formula for Ulster's divided people. Tragically, that is just what the I.R.A. and its extremist Protestant adversaries want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Draconian Measures | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...infectious virus-like particle. Dr. Howard Temin of the University of Wisconsin was recognized for his studies of how viruses reproduce. Dr. Howard Skipper of Birmingham's Southern Research Institute was cited for his work in biochemistry and cell biology. Medicine is still far from finding a "cure" for cancer. But without the understanding that these researchers have provided, the search would be more difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hip Doctor | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...Harvard's institutional prejudices and tried to rearrange them, the whole analysis begins to break down when you start talking about the Bok administration's efforts to redress the problem. The three programs that Bok mentioned in his talk--affirmative action, minority recruitment and black studies--are clearly not cure-alls for anything and the way they have been handled here has not made them very efficient ways of even beginning to change Harvard's deeply-rooted biases...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Reassessing Bok's Assessment | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...will of its own. A gun does only what its owner causes it to do. The root of the problem is within the human heart. Cure the cause rather than treat surface symptoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 18, 1974 | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...audience's particular anxieties. He speaks of the modern struggle to live with ambiguities: the knowledge that any good course can be immediately opposed by another equally possible one. It is this constant weighing of trade-offs that forms Shaffer's conflicts. In Equus, the psychiatrist can cure the boy; he can exorcise his gods-demons, but he knows that in exchange he can offer only the dubious promise of "normality" and "adjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Showman Shaffer | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

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