Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other problems. But Starzl believed the reaction occurred in dogs alone and undertook a graduated series of experiments on several other animals, from rats to baboons. These tests were encouraging, and in February 1989 Starzl tried the drug on Robin Ford, a 26- year-old secretary who was in danger of rejecting her third liver. After two weeks of FK-506 treatments, she recovered completely. Says Ford: "It's incredible how great this drug...
...speech entitled "Foragers, Farmers and Rainforest Conservation," David Wilkes said 1986 plans to create a 1.25 million hectacre "biosphere reserve" have been stalled by a lack of political willingness and financial support. As a result, the rainforest and the species that inhabit it are in danger of extinction...
...group of 50 students tries to climb over the large metal spiked fence surrounding Leverett Towers. My journalistic instincts tell me that their reproductive organs are in grave danger of injury. "If one of them slips," a bystander comments knowingly, "it would really hurt...
...officers and giving the predominantly nonwhite enlisted ranks new perks. He has traditionally stocked the post exchanges with ample and affordable consumer goods and protected the pay of enlisted men against U.S. economic sanctions. But as the angry general now wreaks revenge on his military foes, he runs the danger of straining the old loyalties. The distrust, hatred and fear injected into the army are a potentially combustible...
...Washington, where they rarely think of anything else, enough Congressmen read the political winds to hand right-to-lifers another reversal on the very day the Florida session ended. After voting for eight straight years to ban Medicaid funding for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger, the House voted 216 to 206 to allow payments for poor women who become pregnant through rape or incest. Twenty-six House members who opposed such funding in 1988 changed sides...