Word: draining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saved, extraordinary measures could be organized to save them. At one of the Humana press conferences last week, a young woman named Theresa Garrison sat wearing a T shirt that said HELP US HELP AMIE LIVE. Amie Garrison, 5, of Clarksville, Ind., was born without bile ducts, which drain bile out of the liver, and she will die unless she gets a liver transplant. A country-and-western band has so far helped raise $20,000, but the Garrisons also need publicity to find a liver donor. Both Indiana Senators are assisting. To further promote Amie's cause, the Garrisons...
Administrators of academic research programs are worried about a brain drain. If star doctors and grant winners like DeVries can be lured away by conglomerates, what will keep the younger researchers in the universities? Says Dr. Don E. Detmer, vice president of health sciences at the University of Utah: "There's no question that if a place like Humana goes after our programs, we can't compete." Academics also wonder if the willingness of corporations like Humana to invest in research will make it harder for schools to win public funding. They fear that state legislatures and federal...
...widespread than existing United Nations groups would keep any one power from establishing dominance over the developing nation in question. The organization would allocate funds for investment in specific areas. In essence, it would fulfill the developmental functions of an imperialist power without seeking to control the country or drain it of its resources...
...Stanislaw Kostka, the parish in northern Warsaw where the priest had worked during the last four years of his life. Inside the church, Father Feliks Polejewski announced at the end of Mass that "Father Jerzy is among the blessed today." For a moment, all emotion seemed to drain from the congregation, which had kept up a determined vigil for eleven days. Then came the sobs, as the crowd haltingly began to sing a patriotic anthem. Reciting the Lord's Prayer, Father Polejewski gently emphasized the words, "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." Three...
...lead soprano withdrew. During the dress rehearsal, Tenor Barry McCauley objected to Conductor Allesandro Siciliani's tempos and stormed off, while Siciliani threatened to take the next plane back to Italy. Peace was restored, but two hours before the curtain, a can of drain cleaner exploded in the face of the orchestra's harpist; a hasty search was undertaken for a substitute to play the crucial part...