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Word: cures (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't enough). Just when the scars Of their first debut were beginning to heal They're back at out throats with evangelist zeal. Enough is enough: I'm beginning to cry From all of the dreck that's assaulting my eye. Oh. Doctor, this magazine sure needs a cure. But only a blow-torch could render it pure. I'd throw it out, in the compactor yet. But they're going to publish a bound volume set. Oh, they're stronger than me. They'll print volume seven, While I grumble and gripe from a cloud up in heaven...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: PEOPLE, Not People Like You | 3/3/1984 | See Source »

...true Islam has shown me that a blanker indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against Blacks. Yes, I have been convinced that some American whites do want to help cure the rampant racism which is on the path to destroying this country...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, | Title: The Legacy of Malcolm X | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...that these new laws have failed to provide the cure for the sort of racial discrimination that, as statistics reveal, still plagues the death penalty? For one thing, such racial discrimination is present not only in sentencing decisions, but also in the earlier stages of the criminal justice process Moreover, appellate review regardless of the percentage of death sentences overturned, does nothing to redress the imbalance of treatment by race...

Author: By Rurry T. Fisher, | Title: Judging Color | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

...problem effectively scuttled the plan to lift SPAS out of the cargo bay and rotate it slowly in space at the end of the arm. While SPAS simulated Solar Max's spin, McCandless was supposed to attach himself to it with a specially designed pin. Unable to cure the arm's ailment, however, the astronauts could do no more than practice the maneuver on a nonrotating satellite. When McCandless gunned the jets on his MMU, the pin held firmly in place, and a pleased Mission Control insisted that the test demonstrated the feasibility of capturing Solar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Orbiting with Flash and Buck | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...Children with SCID lack specialized white blood cells called Tcells, which help defend the body against viruses and other invaders. T-cells are ordinarily produced in an immature form in the bone marrow and come to maturity in the thymus (hence the T). The only cure for SCID is a transplant of healthy marrow, a bloodlike fluid found in large bones. But such transplants are difficult, since donated marrow must be carefully matched to the white-cell type of the recipient, far more complex than simply matching A, B or O blood types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Emerging from the Bubble | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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