Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor leader, Secretary of State George Shultz, a former economics professor and businessman, and National Security Advisor John Poindexter, an admiral. All three appeared to endorse lying so enthusiastically that you came away with the idea that it was not only the salvation of the Republic, but could probably cure hives as well...
...drop money on them, not bombs. And Congress, he goes on, Congress should have to rescind some old law every time it passes a new one, to make room. Ordinary stuff is Rooney's beat, with no verbal slickery: how doctors can do a heart bypass but not cure a 101 degrees fever, and why do clothing manufacturers put all those pins in new shirts? There is no dazzler at the end; he just stops talking, smiles and waves. The reader is warmed by the happy illusion that he himself could have said all that stuff. Rooney a celebrity? Come...
...becoming the stuff of safe and potent vaccines. And within the next few years, scientists hope to gain federal approval to conduct gene therapy. Their goal: the use of viruses as "vectors" to carry healthy genes to the chromosomes of people with genetic diseases, genes that may permanently cure them...
...hour or two, to forget the fact that living hell is just around the corner. You wander aimlessly up Plympton Street, mumbling something about Beowulf and macroeconomics, when you spot Adams House. If you're smart, you'll go in and see Scapine, a charming study break and timely cure for the mid-term blues. If not, it'll be another Store 24 night...
Behavioral practices, though clearly related to patterns of disease, are poorly understood in contemporary biomedicine. Modern medicine emphasizes treatment, cure and technology, but focuses relatively little attention on preventive medicine and health education...