Word: developable
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...colon, the section containing the 2-in.-long polyp, and sewed the intestine back together. "Our patient, our President is doing very, very, very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during or shortly after major surgery, such as excessive bleeding or infection of the wound. More important, there was no sign of cancer outside the intestine. "We don't know whether there was cancer in the polyp," said Oller. A definitive answer would be disclosed by the full biopsy tests...
...California commission on the teaching profession began consideration of two long-range programs to lure and hold crack teachers: the creation of a prestigious new professional school for well-compensated master teachers and the funding of "key" schools, where administrators and teachers would have the freedom and money to develop the education materials and techniques of the future...
That difficulty has been spotlighted by the resignation of Computer Scientist David Parnas from a nine-member Star Wars advisory panel on computing. Parnas, an American professor at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, had worked with the Naval Research Laboratory since 1972, helping to develop battle computer programs for the Navy. But after attending the first meeting of his Star Wars committee in June and studying the problems involved, he turned in a letter of resignation. "Because of the extreme demands on the system and our inability to test it, we will never be able to believe, with...
...remove the growth. Ritt reports that it was in the same area of the colon as the President's, that it was classified as Dukes B, and that a 2-ft. section of Neil's colon had been removed. Even though some doctors believe that a tendency to develop intestinal polyps may run in a family, Ritt is incredulous. Says he: "I've never seen a family where the incident happened at the same time in the same place...
...meant to us when we had it. I felt it was very important that the Soviets not have it. But in the interests of avoiding nuclear coercion, we had to have sufficiency, which meant parity. And what parity meant for nuclear diplomacy was this: the U.S. had to develop a nuclear strategy to deal with the world as if nuclear weapons did not exist...