Word: graft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidential Administration (Harding's) was reeling in a welter of scandal, most of it dealing with accusations of graft. The anticipated federal deficit was -- are you ready? -- $180 million and, according to Washington -- ready again? -- soon would be wiped out. The government reported that the U.S. (pop. 111,947,000) had 10 million registered passenger cars and 20,550,000 horses. A helicopter stayed aloft at 15 feet for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Southern blacks, hounded by poverty and a rampaging Ku Klux Klan, were moving to the North in large numbers...
Williams is recovering. His jaw is wired shut, and doctors will graft bone from his pelvis to replace crushed leg bones. The explosion, he says, "shows how unpredictable these volcanos are, even for so-called experts like ourselves." He relives Galeras in nightmares; yet he feels driven to find more answers. He says he will resume his work...
...most common complication of such transplants, though, is graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD), a potentially fatal reaction in which the foreign tissue tries to reject its new body (rather than the other way around). Researchers have found that thalidomide seems to keep that reaction in check. Compared with other treatments for GVHD, the drug is relatively benign -- as long as the patient is absolutely certain she's not pregnant...
Human cells of various types have long been successfully studied in laboratory petri dishes. Now, with the help of research performed at a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital, doctors can remove skin cells from a patient, culture them to create a new sheet of skin, and graft them back onto the patient to heal wounds...
...original Popsters may not have been great artists or even uniformly good ones, but they were Rubens and Poussin compared with these Derrida-spouting midgets. And if the graft of Conceptualism onto Pop has produced so little, it is only because the landscape of mass media presents no challenges to the artist: it is sterile now and incapable of a fresh thought or an authentic feeling. Better real ads and comics than exhausted "fine" art about them. That is one reason why our fin-de-siecle, at least in the domain of the visual arts, is turning into such...