Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wheeled into the institute, Dr. Aryeh Shander, chief of anesthesiology and critical-care medicine, and his team moved swiftly. First, they essentially paralyzed the patient with drugs to reduce the demand for oxygen by his muscles, brain, lungs and other organs. Next, they gave him high-potency formulations of iron supplements and vitamins, plus "industrial doses" of a blood-building drug, synthetic erythropoietin, that stimulates the bone marrow to produce red blood cells. Finally, intravenous fluids were administered to goad what little circulation he had left...
...whole thing was a set-up, Einhorn assured followers. Through his antiwar research and with contacts that extended beyond the Iron Curtain, he simply knew too much about weapons development, psychic research and global conspiracies. Maddux was murdered to discredit him. The CIA, the KGB, who knew? The most damning evidence against him was also the most obvious proof of his innocence: Would a man as smart as he murder his girlfriend and keep the evidence at his bedside...
Molten, which is betting big money on an experimental process that is supposed to neutralize toxic wastes in a bath of red-hot iron, hired Knight just as he came off his stint as talent scout for the new Administration. Right away the company had big plans for him to help it pull the right levers with the government, according to an internal Molten memo. But Knight's role was larger than that of the traditional lobbyist, more like that of a corporate impresario. When the company needed credibility to build early capital, Knight arranged for Grum...
...their recruitment focus to the new information economy and away from the old manual one. But the union's targets still stress the less skilled end of the workers' spectrum--apple pickers in Washington state, hotel workers in Las Vegas. Whether these workers can provide a replacement for the iron and steel backbone of the old unions is uncertain. "If they can't crack the service industries--banking, computing, health, finance, insurance--they're dead," says George Washington University labor-law professor Charles Craver...
...press and ran a proof. Then we pulled the lever and started the first of 1,000 sheets of newsprint into the guides. In 1990 I returned to Dinuba. The paper had long since stopped publishing, and the Country Campbell was gone, just so much scrap iron. But my fond memories live on. Sleep well, old friend, you've earned it. DICK MCINTYRE Bakersfield, Calif...