Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Farber Institute conducts research to understand basic principles of immunology and genetics which may lead to new cancer treatments as well as trying to cure cancer victims by conventional means...
...that the belief in a cancer-prone character type, "far from being confined to the back yard of folk superstition, passes for the most advanced medical thinking." Sontag attempts to refute such theories, ascribing them to fear and ignorance in the face of a disease that eludes any comprehensive cure. Yet, cogent arguments seem pale beside Zorn's anguished testimony. Testimony that drowns out dissent through its own vehemence...
Jaruzelski last week summoned eight West European diplomats to a 1½-hr. meeting at which he defended his martial law decision as the only cure for anarchy. Accusing Solidarity "extremists" of "haughtiness," he cryptically suggested that some of the interned union leaders might be exiled to the West. The general also attacked the U.S. economic sanctions as "interference" in Polish affairs and denied that he had acted on Soviet orders. Even as he spoke, however, foreign ministers of the European Community were meeting in Brussels, where they adopted a strong resolution condemning martial law in Poland and blaming...
...timed their efforts to coincide with the Reagan revolution. Paring federal subsidies and waving his magic wand over the private sector, the new president called upon corporations to fill the gaps his budget cuts would leave. But stop-gap efforts to shore up eroding endowments are not the cure-all the prophets of creative altruism might suppose...
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm. By using the confidences of a pseudonymous psychotherapist, a witty and provocative reporter puts the "talking cure" on the couch, and wisely prescribes further treatment...