Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Used as a bridge, the mechanical heart is kept in place until the patient's condition stabilizes and a donor organ is found. Surgeons can now choose among several types of pumps. While Gaidosh received the familiar Jarvik-7, Mandia's surgery marked the debut of the Penn State heart, developed by Surgeon William Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external...
...employees, including dozens of Charles' personal staff, have left. Some of these departures were due to natural attrition; others were nudged by the lady of the house. Palace observers suggest that she was intent on - eliminating servants and staff who were any of the following: stuffy, bossy, too familiar or gay. For generations, many of the palace staff have been known as confirmed bachelors, a euphemism for homosexual men. "She just doesn't want them around her family," says James Whitaker of the Mirror, who has long been Diana's fawning tabloid Boswell...
...three scientists from Laennec Hospital in Paris reported that they had found a drug treatment that produced "a spectacular biological response" in AIDS patients. Such a response, said Dr. Philippe Even, who headed the team, "has never been observed before." The name of this magical potion was unexpectedly familiar: cyclosporine...
...crashing into a small car and two semis crashing head-on." Some of the tremendous energy of those impacts is fleetingly transformed into strange particles that are thought to have existed in the very first moments of the universe. Before the unstable fragments decay back into energy and more familiar bits of matter, their feathery traces are recorded by detectors...
Events rush on. In the Roosevelt Room, outside Reagan's office, the Soviet visitors were nervous. When the interview began, they read carefully scripted questions that also were statements against American positions. Reagan covered familiar ground on arms reduction, Star Wars, the standard sore points. All very proper, very cool. He told them that there would be a fresh U.S. arms proposal, but otherwise he said nothing new. The novelty was the fact of the interview...