Word: heals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the general prescription use of a new drug, cimetidine. It shows greater promise than many previously acclaimed anti-ulcer drugs because it works by a different mechanism. Cimetidine reduces acid production in the stomach wall, allowing the ulcers to heal...
...zone has long offered an almost idyllic playground-comfortable, secure living isolated from the social traumas afflicting either the U.S. or Latin America. "If away you long to steal/ to a real/ Shangrila/ If your heart you wish to heal/ visit Panama," runs a song in Panama Hattie, a Cole Porter musical of a generation ago. For 3,500 American employees of the Government-owned Panama Canal Co., 9,000 G.I.s and 21,100 other family members, Uncle Sugar provides everything from commissary-and post-exchange privileges to bowling alleys and movie houses, swimming pools and tennis courts...
...half of its oil, and prices could rise above their already inflated levels. Reports spread last week that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, had decided to raise its prices 5% by July 1. That would bring its quotes up to the general OPEC level and heal-or at least paper over-the bitter split that developed in the cartel last December (the eleven OPEC countries that raised prices 10% then would supposedly cancel a further 5% boost scheduled for July 1). The Saudis are not talking officially, but OPEC negotiators have been trying for months...
...senseless destruction they witnessed. Moreover, while the majority of those eligible for pardons are middle-class whites, a disproportionately large number of deserters are members of disadvantaged minority groups. Many of these people simply lacked the information or financial means to evade the draft. Any government action to heal the scars caused by Vietnam surely must include these men. It should also cover those who participated in non-violent acts such as the destruction of selective service files in an attempt to stop American involvement...
...time for the United States to "react in a spirit which seeks to heal the wounds of war" in East Asia, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) told approximately 200 people in Longfellow Hall last night...