Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Democratic Party is not doomed. In fact, this year's election may actually pave the way for an eventual Democratic resurgence. But with certain costs. For in order to become competitive at the presidential level again, it must reform its role as the party that sets out to cure social ills...
...that it has hurt the poor by cutting back social programs, including welfare and food stamps. In Losing Ground (Basic Books; $23.95), Murray unabashedly asserts that slashing social spending is the greatest favor the Government can bestow upon the poor. Federal welfare programs, he concludes, perpetuate poverty rather than cure...
When the disease first appeared five years ago, it seemed an impenetrable mystery. The best minds in medicine could not explain the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or why it mainly struck homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Nor could they begin to cure it. Six months ago came news of a breakthrough: scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., and the Pasteur Institute in Paris had discovered a virus that seemed to be closely related to, if not the cause of, the epidemic. The finding was hailed by Secretary of Health...
...while the research is advancing at an unprecedentedly rapid pace, cancer biologists remain divided over its potential to actually provide a cure to cancer. Moreover, competition among researchers has led scientists to withhold information, plaguing the research and slowing down the progress, scientists...
...should I play the piano or be tender?" She asks the anguished Swann. Yet Swann is wracked by his own questions; he sees no future with Odette, but can not bring himself to break with her. He remains mired in a belief that love is a "sickness" he cannot cure until it has done its damage...