Word: evens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journey was Beijing reporter Jaime A. FlorCruz. A graduate of Peking University, FlorCruz has reported on China for TIME for nine years. When he visited the U.S. for the first time last month, he found himself constantly fielding questions about last June's student massacre in Beijing. Even a Broadway night out offered no respite. "I took my wife to see the play Les Miserables," he says. "Watching the portrayal of the French students at the barricades, I was thinking of the wide-eyed youth in Tiananmen Square...
...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...
...tissues. But damage seems to occur only when the beta amyloid is deposited in certain regions of the brain important to memory and intellect. If that is true, then a way might be found to block the delivery of the protein to the brain. That could slow down -- or even halt -- Alzheimer...
...choose from and uncertainty over who is capable of putting his plans into action and managing them effectively. In fact, the purged Nikonov was appointed by Gorbachev with high hopes just three years ago. Moreover, Gorbachev has never had the vast party bureaucracy and probably not even a majority of the Central Committee fully behind...
Soviet and foreign analysts disagree on whether ethnic turmoil or economic failure is the greater threat to Gorbachev. There is no doubt, though, that the peril is real. "Even after this week," observed former British Ambassador to Washington Sir Oliver Wright, "the odds are against him." A Soviet political scientist in Moscow, Yevgeni Ambartsumov, is equally grim. "The threat of economic collapse exists," he says. "Things are getting worse...