Word: long
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canadian medical centers involving 800 patients, investigators found that those given deprenyl took significantly more time to reach the point where they needed levodopa than did those not receiving the drug. Based on the results, the researchers project that patients on deprenyl can wait twice as long -- about a year -- before taking levodopa...
...cars this fall feature aerodynamic design, quick acceleration and two interchangeable engines. They are also about six inches long and cost ten bucks...
...next year. What really sent the motor moguls into orbit were signs that the Saturn pictures, along with shots of the 1993 Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird in the same issue, had been leaked to the trade magazine by an employee in GM's design studios. Unlike the grainy, long-distance spy shots that paparazzi regularly take of new models as they whiz around company test tracks, the Saturn pictures were crisp and carefully posed...
...around $12,000, represents the biggest U.S. automotive gamble in years. Launched by Chairman Roger Smith in 1982, Saturn was designed to give GM a small car that would outsell imports from Japan. Said Smith in the mid-1980s: "We believe Saturn is the key to GM's long-term competitiveness, survival and success as a domestic producer...
...Jesuit priests, which seemed to symbolize all that is wrong in El Salvador. While no one has claimed responsibility, immediate suspicion centered on the country's resurgent right- wing death squads. In the predominantly Roman Catholic country, angry accusations and outrage over the barbaric murders were certain to linger long after the battle had died. And for the U.S., they raised once again the moral dilemma of aiding a country where such acts have repeatedly gone unpunished...