Word: fores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...refitting an old building can be twice as expensive as installing the same system in a new one, and owners are usually reluctant to do so voluntarily. Las Vegas fire department officials, for example, claim they have urged the MGM Grand Hotel and other hotels built be fore the 1979 building code to install sprinkler systems and smoke alarms, but to no avail. "Retrofitting of the older hotels has always been an economic tug of war," says Clark County Manager Bruce Spaulding. Perhaps now they will. Says Gordon Vickery, director of the U.S. Fire Administration: "We usually lose people...
...1970s the cello world lost three of its supreme practitioners--two to death (Pablo Casals and Gregor Piatigorsky) and one to incapacitating multiple sclerosis (Jacqueline DuPre). At the same time two superb young artists came to the fore: Nathaniel Rosen (b. 1948), who two years ago won the Gold Medal at the international cello competition in Moscow; and Eugene Moye...
...that in the five years following Brezhnev's death, most of the top leadership will be replaced. Every effort will be made to give the impression of an orderly succession. An interim leadership group composed of some of Brezhnev's surviving associates will presumably come to the fore. The immediate successor in Brezhnev's key post as General Secretary of the Communist Party is expected to be Andrei Kirilenko, who is three months older than Brezhnev, but in better health. Another contender for the job of party chief is Konstantin Chernenko, 68; like Kirilenko...
With that information, Gajdusek, who won a Nobel Prize for his efforts, uncovered a new kind of pathogen, a slow virus that may be akin to those that cause other degenerative diseases, like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. The solution for the Fore was a government mandate that keeps the dead out of the stew pots; by the end of the century the Laughing Death should be eradicated. Gajdusek's discovery may have brought a step closer a solution for victims of other slow viruses as well...
...title suggests, the fascination is in the hunt, in the search for solutions. Problem: a small tribe in New Guinea, the Fore, was threatened with extinction. For unknown reasons, most of its women were being attacked by a nerve disease that began in giggles and ended in death. Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, an American epidemiologist, arrived in 1957 and investigated. He gave the victims every medicine on the shelves. He checked the water in the streams, the soil, even the ashes in the cooking fires. Finally, after months of inquiry, he discovered that when someone died, the Fore buried...