Word: insertion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collision at 2.5 m.p.h. instead of the present 5 m.p.h., for example, the commission expects to save auto companies and car buyers $300 million a year. But insurance claims and premiums may increase beyond those estimated by the Government. By killing a proposed Carter Administration rule requiring pharmacists to insert warnings about the side effects of prescription drugs, the Administration expects to save consumers up to $100 million a year. But critics claim that buyers with special health problems could become seriously ill as a consequence...
...would eat, sleep and play within the confines of the shopping center. Eventually they would mutate into small, pale, big-eyed creatures, skin oily from a constant diet of Pepsi and pizza, bodies nearly muscleless from lives of total languor, fingers useful that can only change television channels and insert quarters into video games...
...hint of a fighting tone in McClean's words may reflect the Financial Times' decision to foray onto Dow Jones' U.S. turf: the paper is offering U.S. newspapers a weekly insert of international business coverage that made its debut Jan. 10 in the Houston Chronicle. Bigger efforts may follow. Says a Financial Times executive: "We are not printing a U.S. edition, but we should be. That is the logical next step...
...stone is too big to be "basketed," doctors insert a metal rod that conducts high-frequency sound waves into the stone. "The surfaces tend to be pretty hard," says Urologist Robert Kahn of the University of California at San Francisco, "but once the thing is cracked, it falls apart." The fragments are removed by suction or the grabbing tool. Total time from start to finish: between half an hour and two hours, depending on the size, number and chemical composition of the stones...
...Britain's side in the conflict. U.S. diplomats pointed out that they had lobbied successfully to water down the resolution before voting for it. Among other things, the U.S. persuaded Argentina to drop a reference to the Falklands as a colony. In addition, State Department officials helped to insert a phrase to imply a formal end to the South Atlantic hostilities, something Buenos Aires has never admitted...