Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three days after he returned from Moscow, their suspicions proved correct: Radio Kabul announced that Karmal was stepping down to assume the ceremonial position of President. His successor as General Secretary is Major General Mohammed Najibullah, 39, a doctor known for his hard-line fidelity to Moscow and his ruthless efficiency for the past five years as head of Khad, the dread Afghan secret police. Although the transition was managed peacefully--the previous three Afghan leaders had been killed during transfers of power --Soviet tanks took up positions in the hills outside Kabul, and armored units patrolled the city...
...million compatriots, the former Health Minister with eight years of parliamentary service was invariably eclipsed by Waldheim's high profile. And his earnest concentration on such issues as old-age pensions, health and unemployment failed to ignite any but his own Socialist supporters. In addition, the so-called Good Doctor scrupulously refrained from challenging his opponent's suspect record...
Like many other doctors who see the unfortunate consequences of endometriosis, Nezhat is concerned that a "lot of women do not seek help for this problem." Any serious pain, he notes, needs investigating. Agrees Cheri Bates: "If a doctor tells you that suffering is a woman's lot in life, get another doctor...
Within days of her arrival she was reported to have fought bitterly with her son, a Moscow doctor. A few months later, her daughter, a geologist who spends most of her time on Kamchatka Peninsula in the Soviet far east, announced that she wanted no contact with her mother. Svetlana and Olga moved to Tbilisi, in Stalin's home republic of Georgia. In Gori, his birthplace, many still revere the dictator who brutally ruled the Soviet Union for 24 years...
Each month K.C. Esperance, 31, a San Francisco nurse practitioner, suffered menstrual cramps so agonizing that she would take to her bed, curl up and pray that she would live through the next couple of days. Doctor after doctor gave her the same ineffectual advice: rest, take some codeine and bear with...