Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical science has come in its fight against the cluster of diseases collectively known as cancer. The struggle has been long and hard and, unlike work in other medical fields, has produced few really dramatic breakthroughs. But patient by patient, tumor by tumor, doctors are beginning to gain ground. "We may not know how to cure most cancers yet," says Dr. Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), "but we do know what we need to do to get there. And that's very exciting...
VINCE SNOWBARGER Republican--Kansas 3rd Snowbarger thwarted his opponent's attempt to reach the moderate middle ground in this traditionally conservative district, winning by a 4-point margin...
...abundance of funding.) It is not my intention to praise fellow students--praiseworthy though they may be. I would simply like to note the environmental unity of the place we call Harvard, and the role that urban geography plays in our daily lives here through the provision of common ground...
...intervene came from the highest levels. "The defining moment of the post-Dayton process was the flat refusal of NATO to do anything other than defend itself and enforce the military separation line," says a former U.S. diplomat. "NATO had this enormous amount of force on the ground, facing a group of bullies who respected NATO but nothing else. The reason for the military hesitation is Vietnam. The commanders were afraid of casualties...
...West, wonderfully narrated by Peter Coyote, doesn't have the tight focus or cumulative force of The Civil War; with so much ground to cover, this wagon train can't linger too long in any one spot. And we miss at least some discussion of how the legendary figures of the West fit into the story. Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok are dismissed in a sentence; Jesse James and the O.K. Corral aren't mentioned at all. Viewers weaned on TV and movie westerns will be mildly disappointed. And Buffalo Bill would have been appalled...