Word: healed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weak but not completely failing. Implanting such a pumping chamber would be simpler and cheaper than performing a heart transplant, and since the borrowed muscle is the individual's own, it would not be rejected. Patients might even benefit psychologically, notes Stephenson, from knowing that their body has helped heal itself...
While the tenure decisions themselves may or may not have been correct, the fact that a majority of the faculty is angered over how these decisions came about points to poor leadership by Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49. Yet rather than seek to heal the rift, Vorenberg decided to grease the appointment wheels by stacking the tenure committee with conservative stalwarts. The result, not too surprisingly, was to further divide the faculty...
...increasingly tense political climate of Nicaragua, however, it is becoming more difficult to say what that role should be. Some Catholics urge the Cardinal to try harder to heal the Nicaraguan church's internal rift, which in turn might lessen tensions with the government. Others advise him to speak out against repression even more forcefully. Says Activist Exile Baltodano: "The government of Nicaragua is still sensitive to international pressure." Considering the irreconcilable forces at play, continued confrontation between Obando and the Sandinistas seems virtually inevitable...
...Three months after that, she hopes to put the document to a national plebiscite. If all goes well, a new legislature will be in place within a year. In the meantime, said Aquino, the provisional "Freedom Constitution" should allow a nation undermined by 20 years of Marcos' rule to "heal its wounds, restore its strength and enjoy the fruits of its newfound freedom...
...suspect" in the 1983 assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr., made it clear she would not seek the extradition of Marcos from exile, although she hinted she might reopen an inquiry into the murder. "I can be magnanimous in victory," she said. "It is time to heal wounds and forget the past...