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Word: patient (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chances grow that a clot may form in one of the narrowed passages, cutting off the flow of blood to a region of the brain. The result may be a stroke, which could lead to loss of memory or speech, paralysis, and even death. For this type of patient, few treatments are available, though doctors sometimes prescribe anticoagulants to lessen the chance of clotting. Yet, since 1967, teams of skilled neurosurgeons have been performing exquisitely delicate brain-artery bypass operations on such stroke-prone patients. They have also been meticulously monitoring these patients, comparing their progress with that of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bypass for the Brain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...centuries scholarship ranked first and sales a poor second. A Coptic Bible published in 1716 admittedly appealed to a very select audience-primarily theologians. Only 500 copies were run off, and the last did not sell until 1907, a patient 191 years later. Then there was Muller's Certain Variations in the Vocal Organs of the Passeres that have Hitherto Escaped Notice, which Charles Darwin persuaded the press to print in 1878. Fortunately, Darwin was not a publishing executive. In 25 years only 21 volumes were sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford's Ancient Quality Act | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...order to be exempt from the certificate requirement, proposed research and educational facilities cannot increase a hospital's patient care capacity or cause a rise in the total patient care costs. The state must also be informed 21 days before any project is undertaken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Law Will Aid Development Of Harvard Medical Projects | 3/10/1978 | See Source »

...McDonough), a donkey-driver unexpectedly lifted to power, as a bumbling, good-natured clown rather than following the original portrait of a man fated to disobey God's commands. David (Suzanne Baxstresser), the young hero of the tale, emerges as a Machiavellian schemer whose love of power makes him patient enough to wait for it. Samuel Steven Weinstein)--in the Bible a wise judge--becomes the string-pulling kingmaker, a self-styled and arrogant Rasputin figure. Lipsky adds the role of Ruth (Phoebe Barnes), a local witch who loves and is loved by Saul, but who loses out to Saul...

Author: By Susan D. Chira, | Title: The New Old Testament | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Brandeis's patient strategy seemed to be working for two and a half minutes as Cooper refused to come forward and appeared to be accepting her own and her team's patient death...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Women Fencers Nick Brandeis by Single Touch | 3/1/1978 | See Source »

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