Word: ditch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When two bypass operations failed to help the ailing child, doctors decided on a radical, last-ditch effort to save her life: a liver transplant. The cells of the liver are specially equipped to remove harmful LDL cholesterol from the blood, but because of her genetic defect this mechanism was not working in Stormie's liver. The hope was that a new organ would cleanse LDL cholesterol from her blood and perhaps even reverse the buildup in her arteries. There was one hitch, however. Says Pediatric Surgeon Basil Zittelli of Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh, where the transplant...
POOR GULF OIL. Mounded by corporate thugs for six months, the company finally gave in two weeks ago--for $13.2 billion. In a desperate, last-ditch effort to avoid the clutches of Texas buyout cannibal T. Boone Pickens, executives of Gulf--the seventh largest oil concern in the country--sold out to Standard Oil of California, the eight largest...
...Administration fared no better last week in a clumsy last-ditch effort to increase U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens agreed to attach a request for $21 million for the rebels to a bill being considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee to provide funds that would help poor people pay their fuel bills. The backfiring tactic was devised by top White House Aides James Baker and Richard Darman. Even some Republicans on the Republican-controlled committee were outraged by the stratagem, which would have forced Senators opposed to funding the Nicaraguan contras to vote...
...reproduction of the tapes center largely around fears of top producers--how many people outside of lowa would bother to tape the morning farm report on the local news? Given the multimillion that many of these top producers make, it can hardly be that Larry Hagman of al. will ditch Dallas because some people might pass over the commercials or skip the rerun syndication because the tapes are already in their library...
...night before the debate, Glenn delivered an unusually warm five-minute TV speech, a last-ditch, do-or-die appeal to New Hampshire voters that cost $10,000. Ten reruns were scheduled. Hart, desperate not to lose momentum, dumped $100,000 into television ads and cranked up his solid organization. Mondale just sat tight. His aides fretted. "New Hampshire's not our kind of state," said one, alluding to its Yankee conservatism-and orneriness. "There's a big what-the-hell vote. A candidate like Hart could single-shot...