Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if Burroughs refuses to reduce its price further, some patients may begin paying less for AZT treatment. Doctors are discovering that combining the potent antiviral drug with such other formulas as interferon (an immune- system booster) or probenecid (an antigout drug) lowers the dose of AZT necessary for effective treatment. In addition, people who are infected with the AIDS virus but show no symptoms need only about half the full-strength dose to slow the course of the disease...
Take the matter of conditioning. American players usually start formal training about five weeks before the season begins, continue a medium dose of exercise for the first half of the year and tail off to conserve strength as the season wanes. The Japanese approach firmly states that more is better. In mid-January, three months before opening day, teams hold a "voluntary" winter training camp. Everyone attends. By February they are practicing seven hours a day and participating in evening strategy sessions. During the season teams report at 2 p.m. for a four-hour drill before a night game...
...trouble Mexico is finally getting a modest dose of debt relief, but whether it will be enough to right the country's economy is in question. Last week Mexico and 15 of its largest creditor banks said they had reached a tentative agreement under which the country will save some $12 billion in payments over the next four years on its foreign-bank loans; these represent $54 billion of its total debt. Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari hailed the agreement on television, declaring, "This is the culmination of one of the most difficult, complex and tense financial negotiations...
...remains renewed governmental pressure on behalf of a desegregated America, as politically unpopular as it may be. The implicit message of A Common Destiny is that white America, left to its own devices, will never complete the unfinished task of creating racial equality. That will take leadership, and a dose of compulsion, from...
...other tracks, "Nitro" and "Why Do You Think They Call it Dope?", will give hardcore fans their dose of braggadocio rap. And yes, LL's popular rap single, "Going Back to Cali," has finally found a space on one of his albums...