Word: cures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slice from his liver, and afterward made a more serious announcement: the Shah was suffering from histiocytic lymphoma, a form of cancer of the lymphatic system. The disease also involved his spleen, but, said the hospital's physician in chief, Dr. Hibbard Williams, ''some potential for cure exists.'' He added that the Shah would remain at the hospital for six weeks and might require as much as 18 months of outpatient chemotherapy...
...Depression have "put a floor under the downward movement of the economy." This guarantee against disaster, in Heilbroner's view, has changed economic expectations so much that corporations raise prices and unions demand higher wages more recklessly than they otherwise would. The result is faster inflation. Thus the cure for the Great Crash, seen from this perspective, has created side effects that must be treated if the nation is to avoid the Great Inflation...
Thomas's crities claim that he is overly optimistic--overawed by natural harmony. Thomas clearly believes in some grand design: he repeatedly suggests that complex systems, if left alone, will run smoothly. He carries this idea of non-intervention to extremes, however. We should cure disease, he says, because germs are "meddlers," interrupting the body's natural harmony. Thomas, in his enthusiasm for simplification, has mistaken the environmental position of these organisms. Disease-producing bacteria should certainly be eliminated but they are as intricate a part of the natural world as the body they attack...
These lists form the substance of the manual--dull as any address book, they are Edelhart's forte. He glues them together with chapter headings that resemble K-Mart stick-ems: "Well, If They Can Cure Hiccups, What About Acne?" or "A Knotty Problem--Tying Ties...
...lists proclaim the relative effectiveness of various contraceptives; even lengthier ones describe the side effects of drugs. Most students are already bombarded by such warnings, yet Edelhart omits what could be the most useful information to students themselves: how to deal with a friend on drugs or how to cure a hangover. This stodgy approach to drugs and alcohol is typical of the weakness of the book, which gives a complete listing of standard references, but not necessarily the advice that students most need...