Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Raul Alfonsin was determined to be convincing. "A time bomb," he declared, "is planted in the middle of Argentine society." In a 30-minute television address last week, Alfonsin resorted to such dire imagery to convey a sense of emergency and justify a drastic new austerity program. To cure the country's economic ills -- runaway inflation of more than 100% so far this year, a foreign-debt burden of $55 billion and a current budget deficit of $5.6 billion -- the President offered a radical prescription: wage-price freezes, tax increases for middle- and upper-income earners and a currency...
Only Ben Kingsley, who makes a brief turn as the American hypnotist/therapist Maurice consults in hope of a "cure" for his homosexuality, seems as if he's perfectly settled into his role. With his ridiculous advice to Maurice--"go take some exercise, go stroll around with a gun"--Kingsley's Doctor injects a less solemn note into a movie that could really use some gaiety...
...They can use the information, they just can't turn around and sell it again," Gilbert says. However clients could sift through Genome's DNA map to discover the genetic cause for a disorder and develop a cure for it, he says...
...even more ridiculous. There is simply no such thing as a Third World military establishment which is genuinely interested in democracy; to call them fascistic would be overly generous. To stabilize the Philippine government by giving more money to its military, then, would be like trying to cure a cold by spending a night in the rain...
AIDS devastates the human immune system, making the body prey to a variety of maladies. There is no cure for the disease, which strikes mostly male homosexuals and intraveneous drug users...