Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is nothing unusual about kidney transplants these days, although last week's "doubleheader" operation was a kind of surgical economy seldom arranged. While doctors would prefer to use kidneys from close relatives to lessen the chances of natural rejection of foreign tissue, such donations cannot often be arranged. Those willing to donate organs are often not healthy or else are incompatible donors, and those able to donate are often not willing. The next best source is cadavers...
Having the two HPC's working together over an extended period of time would presumably lessen the possibility of any more such reversals...
...aviation's greatest hazards are pilot error and fire. Last week two potent weapons were introduced that should lessen these hazards and make the skies safer. At Dayton, Air Force researchers demonstrated a material that they say will greatly reduce explosions and fires in airplane fuel tanks. And in Manhattan, American Airlines an nounced development of a Big Brother device that will watch nearly every move a pilot makes during flight, spot his errors and provide information to help him correct them before they cause any real difficulties...
...last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that Mao welcomes the skirmishes abroad to lessen his followers' frustrations at failing to win a decisive battle in the Cultural Revolution...
Russia's intellectuals-and many of their colleagues in Eastern Europe-are squirming more restlessly than ever under the weight of Communist orthodoxy, but they see a subtle opportunity to lessen the burden in 1967. Because it is the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, they figure that Communist authorities will take pains to avoid an open clash with the intellectual community, and may even be moved to lift some restrictions on their freedom. Whether or not their hunch is right, the intellectuals have been making some unusually outspoken protests against repressive government policies, particularly in literature...