Word: oxygenates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first breakthrough occurred when neurologists realized that damage to the spinal cord continues to progress for about 48 hours after the initial accident. As the first nerve cells die, they release toxins that attack neighboring cells that have managed to survive. Some of these toxins are renegade oxygen molecules, called free radicals, that eat through cell membranes. The ensuing flood of biochemicals destroys even more nerve cells. The devastation spreads from the gray matter at the center of the cord to the white matter that surrounds it. Ironically, the body's response to injury only makes matters worse. The inflammation...
Hill helped clear up the confusion in the 1980s by carefully measuring the sulfur content of samples taken from the caverns. Her work proved that Carlsbad was carved not by carbonic acid but by sulfuric acid, produced by a reaction between oxygen dissolved in groundwater and hydrogen sulfide bubbling up from deep below the earth's surface. This highly toxic solution, which would have killed anyone present at the time, sculpted the many subterranean chambers at Carlsbad...
Lindsey's virtue is that he understands the centripetal nature of power -- that to get to the core of it, you have to almost disappear. Lindsey is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. "He's like oxygen," says Clinton strategist Paul Begala. "You can't see him, and you can't live without him." After years of his being at Clinton's side -- Lindsey was the presidential candidate's first traveling companion when the two trekked anonymously through airports, carrying their own bags -- there is practically nothing in print about him. He shuns interviews and does...
...loans would go a long way toward invigorating small and medium-size businesses, which are the nimblest sector of the economy and the most likely to provide new jobs in a hurry. Until that happens, no matter who gets elected President, the nascent recovery will be robbed of the oxygen it needs to grow...
What is left for Ross Perot is the rehabilitation of his reputation. Without the oxygen of feedback -- the laughs and snickers that accompany his homilies when his fabulists people the room -- Perot's act quickly tires. As he moves beyond diagnosis to prescription, Perot must ensure his presentation is persuasive enough so that if the nation's stagnation continues, he can reappear in 1996 to ask credibly, "Now are you ready to act instead of talk...