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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distinguish its product from Pfizer's, Lilly makes the additional claim that Oraflex may actually slow the progression of the disease. The claim is based on preliminary research showing that Oraflex inhibits the migration of macrophages, a type of white blood cell, to the inflamed joint. Macrophages ordinarily defend the body against foreign invaders, but in some forms of arthritis they appear to attack the body, destroying bone and cartilage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fighting Arthritis Pain | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

...question serves to illustrate that Beyond the Ivory Tower operates on-two levels. The first concerns the sanctity of the Ivory Tower itself, which Bok skillfully goes to great lengths to defend. His discussion of the ideal of the university's "four essential freedoms" is stirring and convincing, if not refreshing. The second level focuses on the methods the university should employ to both safeguard those values and exert positive influence on society. This dominates most of the book and can summed up by the words "cost-benefit analysis." The interplay between the two levels proves far from satisfying...

Author: By Lawrence S. Grafsten, | Title: View From the Ivy Tower | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

Many of us Marines who served in the Pacific in World War II would willingly take out our mothballed uniforms to defend our English friends with whom we served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1982 | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...among academic experts is to index benefits either to the rise in prices or to the increase in average wages throughout the economy-whichever is less. That would keep benefits in inflationary periods from racing far ahead of tax collections, which are keyed to the rise in wages. Advocates defend the plan on grounds of equity too: Why should the elderly be afforded fuller protection against the ravages of inflation than the young and middle-aged workers whose taxes pay for their pensions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Security: A Debt-Threatened Dream | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

During the 1980 presidential campaign, Candidate Reagan challenged that bipartisan policy. He said that President Carter had treated Taiwan shabbily, arguing that the U.S. had a continuing obligation to help defend Taiwan. Soon after taking office, Reagan was faced with a request from Taiwan for advanced F-5G jet fighters. Although the President later tried to mollify the Chinese by proposing instead to extend coproduction of the less sophisticated F-5E jets, he irritated Peking by sending Congress a proposal last month to sell $60 million worth of military spare parts to Taiwan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Caught in the Squeeze | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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