Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broken Cycle. Dr. Kessel's most potent weapon was the drug diethylcarbamazine (Lederle Laboratories' Hetrazan). It does not kill all the adult worms or directly cure a full-blown case of filariasis, but it prevents reinfection by killing the wormlets in their early, vulnerable phase...
...isolation block is trilling, and convicts who get bored with their pets give them to Stroud to keep. With painstaking perfectionism, he fashions cages out of packing crates. A septic fever epidemic decimates his aviary. He pores over biology books, concocts trial-and-error medicines until he discovers a cure. With the help of a bird-loving widow (Betty Field), he markets the medicines...
...series of financial crises culminated last summer in a massive, sustained flight from the pound that at its peak pumped up to $1.4 billion a month out of Britain. The government stanched the flow with heavy loans and anti-inflationary wage curbs (the "pay pause"), but the only permanent cure, economists decided, was to boost
...following notes, and they are intended to help you get to know the city, and to encourage you to explore it for yourself. Cambridge has its charms, but tends to dullness during the summer months. The world that lies (in ruins) across the Charles River provides the perfect cure for the ennui of Harvard Square...
...abroad and to encourage investment in the U.S. by foreign capital, now attracted to higher interest rates overseas. The danger: that higher interest rates might contribute to choking off domestic business activity, as it did before the 1958 recession, and create a worse evil than it was meant to cure...