Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bacterium involved in the current outbreak appears to be resistant to antibiotics. Because it can remain dormant and is also contagious, health experts fear that as many as 10,000 people could eventually contract the infection, which causes vomiting, diarrhea and fever. While the search goes on for the exact source of the bug, Jewel has shut its suspect dairy and removed all its dairy products from its 217 outlets. Workers at several Chicago-area stores poured thousands of gallons of milk down storm sewers, creating concern that this might allow the bacteria to spread. Jewel cleaned up the potential...
...plea to President Reagan for renewed U.S. involvement. Then, last week, the globe-trotting Egyptian leader joined King Hussein on a trip to Baghdad to enlist the support of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Not since Reagan took office have Arab leaders displayed such an aggressive effort to revive the dormant peace process and, most important, to get the U.S. back into the diplomatic game...
...through the islands on Friday, Dec. 2, 1983, the cameramen, including Eddie Adams, Gordon Parks and Douglas Kirkland, visited such disparate sites as a de livery room of a hospital on Oahu, the ranch country of the Big Island, a Japanese cemetery near Honolulu and the crest of dormant Haleakala volcano on Maui. The resulting kaleidoscope of scenery and characters, natives and haoles, shows an undiscovered country that, paradoxically, seems to grow more appealing as it becomes more familiar...
...importance of a successful varicella vaccine goes beyond protecting children. Even those who recover uneventfully can be painfully reminded of the disease in adulthood by shingles. The chickenpox virus is a member of the herpes family of viruses that can lie dormant along nerves for decades and be suddenly reactivated, possibly by stress or injury. Says Virologist Stanley Plotkin of the University of Penn sylvania: "Shingles causes severe, insane pain in one in 10,000 Americans a year...
...issue of discipline, stating only that all grievances will be given a full and fair hearing to be conducted promptly and in good faith. The issue is further complicated by the fact that the body established to enforce the resolution, the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, has lain dormant for almost a decade and is a political red flag to some students because of conflicts surrounding its formation...