Word: dies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...habits die hard," said state Rep. Joseph Wagner, D-Chicopee. "But who knows. Maybe more people will come out to vote if they can know the results before they...
...calculations zinged through my head: batter righty; pitcher lefty; me on the first base side; open aisle on the right; tiny, insignificant brother on the left; room behind if needed. I had flippantly remarked two innings earlier that were I to catch a foul ball today, I could die a happy man--now, as always, I prepared myself for such an eventuality, and all the geometry favored my location...
...things." She and her colleagues have calculated that tuberculosis treatment can extend a person's life by a year for less than $10,000 -- surely a reasonable price tag. By contrast, extending a life by a year through asbestos removal costs nearly $2 million, since relatively few people would die if the asbestos were left in place. That kind of benefit-risk analysis all too rarely informs the decisions made by government regulators...
Remember when AIDS activists staged die-ins on Wall Street, barricaded the doors at the Food and Drug Administration and threw smoke bombs at the National Institutes of Health? If there was a single, unifying battle cry among protesters, it was the charge that the Federal Government's delays in approving experimental treatments were responsible for killing thousands of desperately ill AIDS patients. Now, a mere two years after the FDA relaxed some of its standards and established a "fast track" to rush drugs from the test tube to the bedside, a growing number of activists are changing their minds...
...Hope, created by David E. Kelley (Picket Fences), has name stars -- Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, E.G. Marshall -- and provides familiar TV pleasures. It's a self-important but frequently entertaining mix of Ben Casey melodrama (should an operation be performed to separate two Siamese twins, even though both may die?) and St. Elsewhere-style modernism (the surgeons sing Midnight Train to Georgia around the operating table). Kelley tries to bring the format into the '90s: one early plot line involves a woman whose hmo won't allow her brain-tumor operation to be performed by the more experienced surgeons...