Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prompted by the overarching complaints contained in the letter, the Faculty Council--the legislative organ of the full Faculty--approved legislation to clarify rules about sponsored research. The legislation called for a merging of the two relevent documents, because the one which contained all the rules about what conditions could be placed on research, was entitled, "Criteria for the Acceptance of Sponsored Research...
...William Baumgartner sutured it piggyback over Couch's own ailing heart. By 10 a.m. the exhausted physicians had completed their tasks and made American medical history. It marked the first time in the U.S. that a living individual had donated his heart, in what is termed a "domino donor" organ exchange. Officials at London's Harefield Hospital revealed last week that Dr. Magdi Yacoub had actually been first to use the domino approach there in April...
...week's end both patients were sitting up in chairs, and House had even enjoyed his first post-op hamburger. House had been happy to serve as both organ donor and recipient, said his mother Joyce Plesic. "He said if someone could help him, he should help someone else." Couch's wife Peggy said she was pleased that her husband might have a chance to meet the man who gave him his heart. Doctors say that get-together may occur this week...
...CASE proved an enormous success. Soon the group was performing in dining halls and at alumni functions, meting out punishment in the harsh but hip manner that has become its hallmark. The crowning achievement came with the request from the faculty council to be its official disciplinary organ. After the name was changed to the more formal "Judicial Board," the group was ready to hear its first case...
...target within the city limits. Muffed though it was, the attack delivered a warning that complemented the stepped-up rebel activity in the Nicaraguan countryside: the contras' urban offensive seemed to have begun. Sandinista officials promptly blamed the Reagan Administration. Trumpeted a banner headline in the daily party organ, Barricada: IT COULD HAVE BEEN A MASSACRE. In Washington, officials had quite a different reaction to the bungled strike. "They went all that way, got the charge wired in, then they screwed it up," moaned an Administration official. "These guys are like the gang that couldn't shoot straight...