Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medical malpractice insurance rates have turned many doctors into devout lawyer haters. And the M.D.s may soon get even angrier because a bimonthly legal magazine, Case & Comment, is touting yet another "new frontier in medical malpractice": the duty of a physician to warn former patients of any newly discovered danger in drugs or devices that the doctor prescribed in previous years. The magazine article dredges up a little noted 1978 California Court of Appeals decision called Tresemer vs. Barke, which involved the notorious Dalkon Shield intrauterine device. Within two years after Donna Sue Tresemer had a shield inserted...
Given the cost of colds, as well as the outright danger they represent when they attack somebody who is otherwise seriously ailing, the search for a way to prevent them must go on. But everybody should be forewarned that if the search ever succeeds the cold will be missed in more ways than...
Speakers at Harvard's conference raised issues ranging from the danger of increased Soviet and American short-range nuclear arsenals in Europe to the infeasibility of any nation's "winning" a nuclear...
...then, must be to take away the source of danger, not to figure out ways to buck the odds against oblivion for a few more years. Thankfully, there seems to be a growing recognition of this most important of facts. In Western Europe--and even in Rumania--people seem to be saying that no, they'd rather not have a demonstration explosion or any other sort in their country. The City Council of Cambridge acted wisely and with courage earlier this fall when it called for bilateral disarmament. And tomorrow, Harvard professors and students will join the Union of Concerned...
...scholar but a superb manager of political stage effects, to elevate Jefferson to the presidential pantheon. The intellectual sleight of hand was simple enough: the New Deal was the modern embodiment of the Jeffersonian "spirit," in which government, depending on its purposes, was either "a threat and a danger" or "a refuge and help" to the people. And to this day the Democrats hold Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners...