Word: curely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...punishment money is the least important part of the package. It cannot resurrect all those millions of dead smokers or cure those now terminally afflicted. Besides, current high cigarette excise taxes already cover much of the states' public-health outlay to care for sick smokers. The settlement price is really meant to put a dent in the American tobacco industry's bottom line. But by gradually jacking up the retail price of the 24 billion packs they sell in the U.S. annually and saving much of their present multibillion-dollar-a-year advertising, promotion and merchandising budget (thanks to restrictions...
...fact that morning-after treatments are being discussed at all shows just how far HIV drug therapy has come in the past two years. There is still no cure for AIDS, but doctors have watched with growing excitement as the new therapies forced the level of HIV in the blood of some of their most advanced AIDS patients below their ability to detect it. HIV still lurks in these patients' lymph nodes, nervous system and other parts of the body. But some scientists believe that if the virus is caught early enough in the cycle of infection, it may some...
More and more young Americans may find themselves in Hicks' and Cockrell's shoes. So-called high-stakes testing is the latest silver bullet designed to cure all that ails public education, and accountability is the vocabulary word of the day. High schools, it is widely believed, are graduating too many kids who haven't mastered basic skills. Solution: all students, even after passing their courses, must also pass a statewide standardized "exit test" to graduate. And the test scores can then be used to gauge how well teachers and school administrators are doing their jobs...
...Harvey cautions that Expos does not cure all writing problems...
...Weil's story of the bee-sting cure of an arthritic knee reminded me of my grandmother, who used bee-sting therapy to treat her arthritis. Grandmother was born in 1872 on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, and most likely it was there in her early years that she learned some natural cures that have benefited our family ever since. PATRICIA EARL Los Angeles...