Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking alone on a deserted street late at night. Suddenly a stranger steps from the shadows and jabs a sharp object in your ribs. "Gimme your wallet," he demands...
...mood" for over a year-the old headache routine, though in fairness they found she was suffering from peritonitis. What's a virile guy like me supposed to do? We're winning the war of words in D.C. too. Ling-Ling -that's my new love object-got her keeper to say that Hubby Hsing-Hsing is "just plain inept," and I like the Washington keeper's rugged sports metaphor, that Hsing-Hsing has to avoid hurt feelings like ''a football player when he's taken off the team...
...several hundred out of the hundreds of thousands of cancer victims who might benefit from interferon, have been receiving the drug. Natural interferon is very costly (up to $150 for a daily injection). Most of the people getting it receive extremely small doses?perhaps too small to work. The object of the Texas experiment: to determine whether bacterially manufactured interferon acts any different from the natural stuff. If the synthetic drug lives up to its billing and causes no harmful reactions, bacterial assembly lines could start producing human interferon in wholesale quantities. The price might then come down...
Chrysler is now seeing some other favorable omens. The Government appears ready to give final approval for another $400 million in guaranteed loans, if a handful of bankers do not object. Also the company's drastic cuts in plant, overhead and labor costs are beginning to pay off. During the past 18 months, Chrysler has reduced the number of vehicles it must sell each year to make a profit from 2.4 million to 1.2 million...
...subject. He does not delve into the inner machinations of the Politburo, nor does he try to second-guess past and present policy-decisions. Instead, he tries to explore the roots and meaning of Soviet dissent; to show how the abuse of human rights actually affects those who do object, rebel and petition. With candid passion, Rubenstein masterfully intertwines the three major strands of Soviet dissident life--the historical, the personal and the legal--to create a three-dimmensional portrait of life under political repression...