Word: doctor
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...develop a steroid drug called Dianabol for use by athletes. He quickly abandoned his research, however, when he saw that the drug was being abused. CIBA ceased production of Dianabol for the same reason, although the company continues to make these steroids for medical use. These drugs, doctors say, are being brought into the U.S. illegally from Europe and Mexico and are being used by athletes without a doctor's prescription. Said a disillusioned Ziegler, shortly before he died last year: "I wish I had never heard the word steroid...
...European visit. Wherever he went, Reagan treated audiences to large doses of his fabled charm. He met his first challenge at University College in Galway, Ireland, a self-designated nuclear-free zone. While the President stood garbed in a scarlet-and-purple academic gown, preparing to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree, some 2,000 faculty, students and other protesters staged a demonstration about half a mile away. Unperturbed, Reagan displayed his own gift for Irish gab, mixing praise for Irish literature and culture with applause for efforts to find a peaceful solution to the sectarian strife in neighboring...
...indignantly denies. Dozens of times over the past four years Guatemalan troops have crossed the border to kill and kidnap refugees. The most recent attack occurred last month, when some 200 Guatemalan soldiers attacked a camp at El Chupadero, four miles north of the border. According to the examining doctor, four men, a pregnant woman and a six-year-old child were tortured and killed...
...always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous," or at the very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent homes, there was the doctor who "treats the sons of some of the most important in the U.S., and he was not select at random. He took care of you, Marc, you too, Johnny, as well...
...better," her husband suggested. But she knew she was unable to run. She began to believe she was making up the pain. "You want to hide your face. Everybody gets tired of people being ill. "After two years, convinced that cancer was the only possible explanation, she persuaded a doctor to take a chest X ray. "That's when they found the whopper, "she recalled recently before her death. The pain had been real, and so was the large tumor in her lung...