Word: graftings
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...gained dictatorial control of his country in 1948, P.J. poured Venezuela's rich oil royalties into an array of public works that made Caracas the most impressively prosperous-looking national capital in Latin America. But behind the building-boom facade, he operated a corrupt police state, with lush graft for insiders and imprisonment and torture for opponents. In P.J.'s torture chambers, prisoners were slashed with razors, burned with cigarettes, forced to sit for hours on blocks of ice. Some prisoners were force-fed harsh laxatives, and then, in a chamber of horrors awash with blood, excrement...
...President, Romulo Betancourt, a onetime Marxist who has since moved to the center and who had lived many years in exile, knew the benefits of benevolent asylum; but he was also convinced that if Venezuela was to move toward democracy, it had to break the cycle of graft-and-go leadership...
...foresighted arrangement with the heart patient's family, surgeons were able to remove the left kidney from the cadaver within 40 minutes after death. Meanwhile, the transplant team under Physician John P. Merrill and Surgeon Joseph E. Murray was getting the accountant ready to receive the graft. Within another hour they had implanted it in the accountant's right flank, and a total of 125 minutes after the donor's death they switched on the transplanted kidney's new circulation...
...accountant had a stormy course for almost a year. He had received no X rays or chemicals in advance to suppress the body's tendency to reject a graft from anyone other than an identical twin. For this job the Brigham doctors had decided to rely on drugs, and they used a battery of the most potent available: azathioprine (a new immunity suppressor), actinomycin C (an antibiotic used against some cancers), a cortisone-type hormone, heart stimulants, diuretics and even bicarbonate of soda. Time and again, the transplanted kidney began to fail as his body tried...
...European-owned oilfields, no one wanted to put a plugged peso into Pemex. Organized to run the nationalized industry, Pemex almost ruined it; the company was a political grab bag for the hacks of Mexico's ruling Revolutionary Party. Between 1952 and 1957, according to one unofficial study, graft and mismanagement cost Pemex $113.6 million. Even so, the insatiable demands of Mexico's fast-rising economy slowly increased crude-oil production to 100.6 million barrels in 1958, compared to 38.8 million barrels in the year of the takeover. Yet the government company seldom made money, wound...