Word: lode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors to have data on long-term survival rates. The procedure, known as an autologous bone-marrow transplant, was designed to overcome the basic limitation faced by all conventional cancer therapies: in doses sufficient to do their job, they can destroy the bone marrow, the mother lode of all blood cells, red and white. By removing a portion of the bone marrow (and purging it separately of tumor cells), physicians can go on to deliver otherwise lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy. Then they rescue the patient from certain death with a reinfusion of the undamaged marrow...
...intrepid cable news network CNN, TNT, a planet-wide TV empire and the MGM film library, with its 2,200 movies, including such crowd-pleasing classics as Citizen Kane, Casablanca and Gone With the Wind. Last week his Turner Broadcasting System announced the acquisition of a new mother lode of small-screen gems: Hanna- Barbera Productions, creators of the animated adventures of the prehistoric Flintstones, the futuristic Jetsons and the Great American Mammal, Yogi Bear...
...Braves-Pirates clash promised more sparks. Atlanta had located a lode of blithe character in its September pursuit and capture of favored Los Angeles. It helped that everybody hated the damn Dodgers. It didn't hurt that Braves partisans urged the team on with toy tomahawks and a war-chant mantra, which the votaries could moan for innings on end (the dumbest mass spasm since the Wave). By playoff time, the Braves were high and loose. All the Pirates' edgy swagger could not mute the magic -- or solve the riddle of a brilliant Atlanta pitcher, as young and ageless...
After each meeting, both drivers alert the cell head in code from a mobile phone or beeper. He telephones a desk officer in Cali, then sends confirmation by fax. Detailed ledgers are maintained in both countries. The ledgers have proved the system's main vulnerability, providing a rich lode of data to DEA analysts when seized...
...paean to transformative violence . . . An explicit fascist theme," writes social commentator John Leo, who went out prospecting for a column in U.S. News and World Report and discovered a mother lode of fool's gold...