Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last March, more than halfway through a routine 20-mile run in Maine in preparation for the Olympic marathon, she felt a sharp stab on the outside of her right knee. Within the next mile, she recalls, "the knee completely prevented me from running another step." Her doctor, Orthopedic Surgeon Robert Leach of Boston University Medical Center, gave her an injection of cortisone. After a week's rest Benoit resumed training, but in early April she again had to "walk out of a run." This time Benoit was referred to Orthopedic Surgeon Stan James, in Eugene, Ore., whose roster...
Linda Hunt, as Dr. Prance, is the most enigmatic, as well as the most sympathetic character in the movie. Amusingly sarcastic at times, she is the observer, in a sense, the raisoneur who reduces birth sides to size. While no feminist, she has a full-time career as a doctor. "Both sexes could so with improving, as neither is up to scratch," she tells Ransom. Despite her patronizing airs she is the best of the lot, in terms of genuine concern and integrity...
...Wall Street summer rally would seem to be just what the White House doctor ordered. For months Reagan Administration officials have been complaining that the financial markets were almost perversely ignoring the strong economic recovery. In some ways they were right. The U.S. economy today is perhaps stronger than it has been in two decades. Growth during the first half of the year was at an astounding annual rate of 8.8%, while inflation was a modest 4.1% on a yearly basis...
Soon after, Cameroon's star, Theophile Abega Mbida, known as "The Doctor," was bounced from the game for arguing with the umpire. Down one man, Cameroon seemed to finally find its form, attacking the Canadian goal mouth with 15 shots...
...Joan Benoit, just being in the marathon constitutes a triumph. Less than three weeks before the May trials, the women's world-record holder from Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on her complaining right knee, which finally shut down completely in practice. With microscissors, the doctor snipped a tight bundle of inflamed tissue from just behind the joint on the outside of the knee. "You could hear it snap," he said. "It was like cutting a rubber band...