Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ranch Apocalypse, they confirmed the planning; a 12-year-old girl told the audience on the Phil Donahue show how they were taught to put the barrel of a gun in their mouth. The feds took the possibility seriously: they collected enough anticyanide kits to provide a lifesaving dose for every child and a few of the adults, and the medics of the HRT kept them at the ready at the forward command post...
Brown said he was doubtful the imposition of term limits would end corrupt relations between interest groups and political candidates. Such a step would simply be "a new dose of yeast in the cauldron of politics," Brown said...
...dark days just after the riot, Los Angeles needed a dose of hopeful talk. But people who came to Rebuild L.A. looking for quick help to rebuild ruined businesses were disappointed. RLA had no money of its own to disperse. It was conceived to facilitate the efforts of others, a mission that presumed there would be a multitude of efforts to facilitate. Ueberroth hoped that the rebuilding drive would rest on a tripod of government, private-sector and community-based efforts. But government on all levels shrugged and turned out its empty pockets. An emergency urban-aid package of federal...
...study showed that patients receiving a recombinant form of beta interferon did better than those getting the placebo. The difference was quite dramatic for those patients who received high dosages of the drug, which is manufactured by Chiron Corp. and Berlex Laboratories. Compared with the control group, high- dose patients suffered 50% fewer serious attacks of the disease, and those attacks were of shorter duration. Moreover, brain scans revealed that this group of patients incurred fewer central nervous system lesions, suggesting that the therapy may be more than purely palliative. It may in fact be the first effective weapon...
...matter has been complicated by a dose of student activism and by the physical differences between the configurations of the houses...