Word: cures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprised if it happened in her family. When breast cancer struck, she became the world's gentle tutor on how to face down the tragedy. The price of public life was a dangerous dependence on alcohol and medication. After leaving the White House, she bravely took the cure. A woman who neither wanted nor sought the world stage, she faltered before her audience, righted herself and won acclaim...
...help for pain. As yet, no industry has disinvented poverty or starvation. And one advanced invention threatens to turn the earth into a polar waste. Even if most people learn to adjust to machines or the new science without the loss of human feeling, that hardly seems the cure for the fearfulness or the hollow detachment of much of modern life...
When asked to speak of the values he holds dear to heart, Bok speaks of the importance of community service, a dedication to helping cure society's ills, and the necessity to address ethical issues...
...problem: two scientists in Britain had devised a complex process for manufacturing antibodies, which might ultimately lead to a cure for certain cancers, but nobody was actually making them...
...cell from a mouse is fused with a white blood cell that produces a specific antibody, then the hybrid cell can be cloned indefinitely and the antibodies separated from it. At the least, these monoclonal antibodies could be used for diagnosis of many ills; if proved safe, they might cure them. That all seemed a little remote to Greene, who was a successful marketing executive at Baxter Travenol Laboratories, but it stirred a response in Ivor Royston, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, who saw possibilities and began searching for someone to take charge...