Word: okay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...delays and cautiousness were FDA hallmarks long before Kessler arrived. His defenders say he has made every effort to speed things up. Even while acknowledging that some approvals still take too long, Kessler points out that the time it takes the agency to okay a new drug is about 19 months, down from 33 months in 1987. In fact, the FDA's responsiveness to aids and certain life-threatening diseases has surprised some early skeptics. Five of the six antiviral drugs used to treat AIDS were first approved in the U.S. The anticancer drug Taxol, the first multiple sclerosis drug...
...story--in verse, no less--about being captured by cowboys: "The Cattle Boss growled as he told me to sit/ 'We need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told him, 'Okay.'" Great illustrations--funny, but not cutesy--by the author, who has drawn his buckaroos without a six-gun in sight...
...first-year student was brought to UHS by worried friends. They wanted to make sure she was okay. And the first-year says she appreciated their concern...
...Zahedi will film what He lets happen. He believes God will create a fulfilling reconciliation between Zahedi and his estranged father, who left Bobby and his mother when Bobby was young. But even from this onset, he confesses he fears this may not be enough, "It's gonna be okay, but I find myself worrying all the time...
...know what's going to happen. They're worried," Itagaki said. "There's a feeling that we can't plan for the future because we don't know what our resources are going to be. I feel concerned because I can't tell them it will be okay...