Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analysis of data collected during 17 clinical trials of nicotine patches revealed that 22% of smokers who used the patch had not resumed smoking six months later -- more than double the success rate of 9% for smokers who tried to quit while using placebo patches...
...just because Iraq remains a threat. If Iraq starts exporting oil, Administration energy experts warn, the price for crude could fall by nearly half, to $11 per bbl. That would spell trouble for volatile and financially strapped oil exporters such as Russia and Saudi Arabia -- and for 60 oil-patch lawmakers, who begged Clinton for new tax breaks in a White House meeting last week...
...know you are a patch of life cut to its own very nature, you cannot fail (or succeed), because awareness grows as you explore that patch of life given to you, as you grow out of the spoiled-child's eye view of existence...
...that? The answer, notes Patricia Steeg of the National Cancer Institute, is that while the genes important to metastasis are abnormally turned on, they are not necessarily abnormal themselves. A cancer cell, in many ways, is not that different from an embryonic cell on its way to becoming a patch of skin or a bundle of nerves. Both embryonic and cancer cells divide and form ill-defined clumps. Both get up and move around. Both migrate and populate new areas. But while an embryonic cell stops proliferating and matures into adult tissue, the cancer cells just keep dividing...
...Picciotto's speech is punctuated by forceful statements that belie her girlish, lurching sing-songy voice. On this cool spring day in April, Concepcion is on the sidewalk in front of Lafayette Square, a park directly across the street from the White House. She's lived on this same patch of sidewalk for the last 14 years, day and night, rain or shine, reminding the thousands of visitors who file past the White House each week about the dangers and horrors of nuclear war, the corruption that infects every aspect of the United States government, and the necessity for people...