Word: eruption
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small-scale fighting, including assassinations and other terror tactics, to continue, how ever, as both sides pursue their conflicting goals. Even more privately, high U.S. officials, while professing outward optimism, fear that once the U.S. has completely pulled out of Viet Nam, open warfare on a larger scale might erupt once again...
...battle for which the President is girding himself will surely erupt, and promptly. His spending hold-downs, by their very diversity, promise to unite against his policy a startlingly broad coalition of interest groups. They range from the unemployed poor to school librarians, and from farmers to executives of construction firms that will get less business building subsidized housing and hospitals. Members of the Senate Republican Policy Committee met with Vice President Agnew last week and voiced loud protests against the withholding of funds for programs that benefit the traditionally Republican farmers...
...Smallpox was the first disease shown to be preventable by vaccination, but doctors are still searching for an effective way of treating it when it does erupt-usually among the unvaccinated. A team of Bangladesh and Canadian physicians believe that they have now found a way. They report in Lancet that cytosine arabinoside (ara-C), a drug known to check the multiplication of several viruses that have DNA cores, may be potent against variola, the virus of smallpox. During the April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries...
...house. The police picked him up, let him out the next day, and he went back and repaired the house." Eventually, each group took to solving most of its own difficulties. They held family councils and adopted a policy of talking things out with each other before crises could erupt...
Because flu tends to erupt at ten-year intervals, doctors have been searching for a defense against the major epidemic expected to occur toward the end of the decade. Now they appear on the verge of success. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health's Allergy and Infectious Diseases branch last week announced a new vaccine that may make it possible to control the disease effectively for the first time...