Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...austerity and slower economic growth to get a country back on its feet is applied to one or two countries, the medicine can work. But if it is given to an entire continent-or, worse, to every developing country in the world-then we all die from the cure...
Your retelling of D-day reminded me of my landing on Juno Beach with the Canadian 3rd Division. My first contact with the French occurred when I encountered the village cure. He had a sour look, perhaps because a shell had torn a hole in the spire of his 17th century church. "Bonjour, Monsieur le Curé," I greeted him. "Are you happy that we have come?" "Yes," he replied, "but I will be happier when you leave." Memories like this give me mixed emotions when I march with my fellow veteran survivors...
...that it could offer good jobs to those now crossing the border. But that is wishful thinking: American voters are in no mood to approve the enormous foreign-aid sums that would be required, and even if they were, there is no guarantee that any such effort could cure Mexico's many economic problems. In the end the Simpson-Mazzoli approach seems likely to get an unenthusiastic go-ahead for the simplest reason: there is a growing consensus, right or wrong, that something has to be done, and nobody can think of anything better...
...drug, marketed by Burroughs Wellcome Co., under the brand name Zovirax, has been available in ointment form since 1982. "This is not a cure," emphasizes Virologist Stephen Straus, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who directed one of the studies. But, he notes, "nothing in the past has been able to suppress recurring herpes...
People with chronic pain often wind up on a medical merry-go-round: psychiatrists tell them that their problem appears to be physical; internists and surgeons tell them they ought to have their head examined. Western doctors, trained to cure acute illness, are often frustrated by patients with vague pain that refuses to go away. So are the families, who quickly tire of hearing complaints. Dejected, guilt-ridden and increasingly isolated, many pain patients eventually seek care outside standard medicine: herbal treatments, chiropractic, faith healing and, too often, quackery. Says Fields of U.C.S.F.: "They fall through the cracks...