Word: injection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over Republican protests, President Clinton plans to inject $60 million from the Pentagon budget into a European rapid-reaction force to protect U.N. peacekeepers in Bosnia. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who oppose U.S. spending on the U.N. effort, immediately sent the White House a letter accusing Clinton of circumventing the will of Congress. (The GOP leaders also balked at Clinton's intention to pay an additional $35 million for ancillary costs.) White House spokesman Mike McCurry saidthe President used his executive authority because the move had little chance of congressional approval; without the support...
Researchers therefore decided to inject neural progenitor cells into the brain ventricles, chambers filled with cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain...
...Pfizer company and Inhale Therapeutic Systems announced that they are collaborating on a device that will allow diabetes patients to inhale insulin rather than inject the drug. Of the more than 14 million Americans who have diabetes, some 500,000 must take insulin every day. Inhale said it has completed the first phase of clinical trials on the product and that Pfizer expects to start trials on people later this year...
...survives Vietnam and wins a Medal of Honor; survives a freak storm on the Gulf Coast that wipes out all other shrimpers, making him fabulously rich; and survives (as in outlives) his sweetheart Jenny, a sad, bad girl who nonetheless leaves behind Forrest Gump Jr. Gump also manages to inject himself, Zelig-like, into a fair amount of historical film footage...
...some earlier eras, Breyer might have hoped to inject himself quickly into the life of the court by taking sides in one of the wars of strong personalities that have occasionally riven it. In their 1979 Supreme Court tell-all, The Brethren, Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong wrote that when William O. Douglas, who had recently had a stroke, was asked how he could decide cases when he couldn't read, Douglas replied, "I'll see how the votes and vote the other way." Today, though Antonin Scalia takes sarcastic digs at his colleagues in his opinions, the personal rancor...