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...instrument, developed in West Germany and Austria, is now making this surgery obsolete in many cases. The percutaneous nephroscope allows doctors to remove stones through a tiny opening in the patient's back or to shatter them into harmless fragments with bombardments of sound waves. Introduced in the U.S. in the fall of 1981, the technique is being used by more than a dozen major medical centers around the country...
...only gave the appearance of something new. In reality, South Africa was at it again and Kapuuo was just their latest instrument of domination in Namibia, a cosmetic change in a situation where passes are still required by Blacks. They still cannot (even if they had the money) own land in the best areas of their own country...
...upward at about a 45° angle and stare intently into the middle distance as he composed himself. Then the great hands would rise from his sides and come down on the keyboard. The piano, with its intricate mechanism of strings and hammers, would cease to be a percussion instrument when Rubinstein caressed it; in his hands, it sang...
Nevertheless the Kremlin has every intention, if possible, of neutralizing Western Europe and driving the American military presence from the Continent. Kennan is too sanguine about the extent to which Soviet power has been-and might be again-an effective instrument of intimidation. But he is quite right that strident, bellicose countermeasures have played into the hands of the Soviet propaganda and diplomatic campaign to split NATO...
...going to keep the banks nationalized (this decision is irreversible) and we will make use of this new instrument with seriousness, professionalism, efficiency and honesty...