Word: edward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward F. von Briesen...
...voters. Earlier reforms opening the party to more women, blacks and party neophytes had gone too far, reducing the rewards of longtime party loyalty and the influence of seasoned officials. Democratic stalwarts had been denied the nomination by comparative upstarts like McGovern and Jimmy Carter. Representatives of Mondale, Senator Edward Kennedy and organized labor dominated the commission. Their operatives devised a primary process stacked against underfinanced or late-starting loners...
...looks so much smaller," Reagan said as he wandered through the rooms. When he studied the side yard where he, his brother Neil, and the O'Malley boys, Edward and George, used to play, he said to Neil: "They even shrank our football field." The President took a handful of popcorn from a bowl on the sitting-room table, just where his mother Nelle always had it popped and waiting. "No salt," he muttered. "Good," said Nancy, who tends the diet...
...first medical linear accelerator in the Western hemisphere, which became the cornerstone of modern radiation therapy and helped transform once fatal Hodgkin's disease, for example, into a relatively curable ailment; of lung cancer; in Palo Alto, Calif. In 1955 the Chicago-born Kaplan collaborated with Edward Ginzton in developing a 6-million-volt accelerator at the Stanford Medical Center, then in San Francisco. The device smashed atoms to produce high-dosage radiation that could be directed at various forms of cancer with much greater accuracy and effectiveness than older, lower-powered X-ray machines...
Last week several legislators, including Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), introduced several pieces of more vigorous legislation to combat toxic waste. The proposals are a welcome sign--the federal government and the EPA in particular have been dragging their feet for too long on a problem that has immeasurable effects on the health of the entire country...