Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visualize medication of the future as being a combined effort by some well-selected doctors, the IBM corporation and some companies now working in the medical electronics field. The result would be a system whereby a patient is analyzed by a computer. The diagnosis could be verified by a doctor, and certainly the progress of the treatment would be supervised by him. Such an analysis would reveal a number of treatable malfunctions, many of which are not even tested for in a general checkup. Doctors would upgrade programs as required...
...Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commander of American forces in Viet Nam. As one businessman summed it up afterwards, Abrams "made no claims and promised no quick victories. He merely demonstrated that we were in control of the situation." South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu spoke with confidence about the war effort. Asked by one guest whether South Vietnamese troops would soon bear enough of the burden of fighting to allow American troops to go home, Thieu answered with emphatic brevity: "Yes." Later, when the group presented him with a cutglass head of an American eagle, Thieu quipped: "You come here while...
...great historical sweeps of the past. Few have thought so clearly about the future. Few have so considered the interplay of forces that shape events, the motivations of men and nations." It was an extraordinary paean to the Frenchman who has so stubbornly obstructed every European and American effort toward political, economic and military solidarity-and one that might have caused deep offense to many of the other statesmen to whom Nixon had been talking all week...
...Frantic Effort...
...frantic effort to keep Harvard from scoring, Dartmouth began to foul heavily, but the Yardlings capitalized by sinking most of the resulting free throws. Brian Newmark was a key man in the last few minutes, as he continued to dominate the boards...