Word: cures
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...near zero. The major obstacle to universal use of the lifesaving solution is that the poorer countries, which need it most, have difficulty obtaining sufficient medication and training enough nurses and technicians to administer it. Thus, while effective sanitation can prevent the disease, and treatment for a near-certain cure is available, cholera remains a grim threat...
...author is not alone in his contention that even the most optimistic SALT agreement would not "eradicate the threat to our land-based missiles and thus cure the instability of the strategic balance." In explaining why true stabilization will not emerge from SALT, Ravenal deftly separates "arms control" from the control of "arms," in the generic sense. Because the former term implies the existence of a forum, agreements, inspection, and reciprocity, it cannot accommodate any effort at stabilization that may exist outside such a framework. Nor, he says, do the "posturing, stonewalling, constructing bargaining chips and .. games of chicken" that...
...Tommy Kramer and expected to open in Eliot House December 1, attempts to present a humorous description of a Harvard freshman year. We all made some mistakes then; Kramer's very funny play will remind us of some we would probably rather forget. Laughter may be the only cure...
Will the Carter proposals cure America's agricultural indigestion? Like so much else in farming, more may depend on the weather than on complex Government plans involving stockpiles and support prices. If the weather is good, the mountains of soybeans and cereal could be around for a long time. But the weather has a way of turning bad, and those burdensome American surpluses could soon prove to be a blessing to consumers round the world...
...centuries ginseng, a root often shaped vaguely like a human body, has been touted in Asia as an aphrodisiac, an aid to long life and a cure for everything from cancer to baldness. A small but growing number of Americans buy it in drug and health-food stores in the form of a gooey black liquid, tablets, tea and even ginseng soap. Almost all finished ginseng products sold here are imported from South Korea and other Asian countries that process the roots-but a good share of the roots themselves comes from...