Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been taking drugs to control the occasional irregular beating of his heart following a massive heart attack. But the treatment proved unsuccessful; one day several months after the attack, his heart began to race, reaching 250 beats per minute before returning to normal. Doctors turned to an innovative method of studying arrhythmias. They threaded electrodes into his heart and electrically stimulated the tissue to induce the erratic beating. Trying different drugs, they learned that none would be helpful in treating Wilson's condition. But by moving the electrodes around, doctors located the areas of heart tissue that seemed...
Balloon Angioplasty. Treatment, like testing, has improved apace. This method has been used on some patients to unclog coronary arteries laden with cholesterol plaque. A catheter is inserted into an artery in the arm or leg and guided to the blocked artery. Then a smaller tube with a tiny, uninflated balloon at its tip is threaded through the larger tube and centered in the plaque-narrowed area. The balloon is inflated for several seconds, flattening the plaque against the artery walls and opening the passage. Dr. Andreas Grvintzig at Emory University, who developed the experimental technique, says it unblocks arteries...
...coyotes are blamed for killing more than a million sheep a year, and sheepmen are clamoring for resumption of open chemical warfare. The U.S. Department of the Interior, meanwhile, has been experimenting with more specific anticoyote tactics. In one method, sheep are outfitted with a poison-filled collar; if a coyote takes a bite, it soon bites the dust. Another device, the so-called M-44, involves a spring-loaded tube covered with bait and planted in the ground. When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth...
...television audience, with tiny ABC, known then as "the Almost Broadcasting Company," struggling to catch up. In the years that followed ABC closed the gap, but it is not simply a three-way rivalry any more. Proliferating communications satellites-the progeny of Sputnik-now offer an alternative method of linking up new networks, cheaper and more flexible than the long-distance telephone lines through which the Big Three send most of their signals...
...predicted a time when about 2 per cent of the population will constitute a "technological elite," while the remaining 98 per cent will have "no method adequate to question the experts." Rather, he said, this majority will "sink into the banal amusements that technology provides for that purpose...