Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dose. Besides having her breasts examined manually and photographed by a heat-sensitive technique called thermography,* every participant in the screening program is annually subjected to mammography, or breast X rays. Although only an extremely low dose of radiation is required, a team of scientists under the leadership of Dr. Lester Breslow, a U.C.L.A. epidemiologist, nonetheless argues that it may well be enough to cause cancer. Mammography, Breslow insists, is "a striking example of a situation where the very disease may be caused by the technology...
Watching her patient come out of a coma, the nurse asked a traditional question: "Do you know where you are?" Congressman Wayne Hays nodded. "Where?" she persisted. Slowly, stretching out the word, he replied: "Barnes ... ville." Hays had survived an excessive dose of sleeping pills, mind undamaged, and would keep his place at the center of a congressional scandal that grew still more lurid last week...
...Cubans are destined to play a major role in Angola's reconstruction. In addition to patrol duties, Castro's troops are slowly shaping up the M.P.L.A. army of 35,000 men, instilling a much-needed dose of discipline. Angolan soldiers complain that the men from Havana work them too hard and sometimes steal their women. But relations are good at officer level, and many M.P.L.A. soldiers now wear Che Guevara-style beards and berets...
...among women who take estrogen during menopause, but he found that the risk was less if they used the drug in monthly cycles including four or more days without any dosage. In any event, he advised that when estrogens are prescribed, "they should be given at the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible time...
...counting chickens even when you're sure they're hatched, Cornell's vociferous rooting section received that lesson in the fourth quarter by a jarring dose of Planetary Realism. After French & Company had roared back to take the lead 12-11 with :06 on the clock, a long line of Ithaca's finest waited along the edge of the field, chanting "We're Number...