Word: frequented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bite-mark evidence. Bundy was convicted in 1979 of murdering two sorority sisters after photographs of bites found on one of them were matched with impressions taken of Bundy's teeth. Since then, the use of bite evidence has "skyrocketed," says Miami Dentist Richard Souviron, a frequent witness-not only in sex-murder cases but child-abuse investigations as well...
DeSanctis cautioned, however, that bypass surgery--the kind Kissinger had--does not prevent hardening of the arteries, a frequent postoperative complication. The first year following the operation is the crucial period in determining how the arteries react to the bypass operation, he added...
Malignant Melanoma, the fifth most frequent form of cancer and the most serious form of skin cancer, spreads very rapidly and is highly lethal if not treated immediately. Doctors believe the disease, which caused 5100 deaths last year, may be caused by exposure to sunlight...
...assertion of human rights progress in El Salvador. The official U.S. view of the situation was restated last week in the State Department's annual country-by-country survey of human rights practices around the world. In 1981 in El Salvador, says the report, "human rights violations were frequent, but there was a downward trend in political violence." By the count of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador, there were 6,116 violent deaths during the twelve months, against 9,000 in 1980. The report says the guerrillas, the right-wing death squads and members of the government...
...during cell division. According to theory, the older the oöcyte when it undergoes division-and in a 40-year-old it has been exposed for twoscore years to pollution, pesticides and X rays-the greater the likelihood that something will go wrong in the process. The most frequent error: an extra chromosome in the egg nucleus. The extra chromosome is usually number 21, which leads to Down's syndrome, a form of mental retardation. (Researchers have found, however, that in 25% of the cases, this defect can be traced to the father...