Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argue that by walking out of work, the workers are contributing to the economic malaise of the steel mill-dominated area. But to gain the greatest prosperity for their numbers and to send a positive signal to other malcontent workers, the strikers would do best to wait it out. Patient picketing during the next few weeks will lessen the blow to Pittsburgh wages, and also signal to other American steelworkers that good contracts are possible through a little solidarity...
...Harvard and across the country, receives national play and usually foretells of some major changes on the horizon for the University. Two years ago, he attacked medical education here at Harvard and all over the country for teaching doctors the basics of surgery but ignoring the psychological aspects of patient care. Last year he studied the benefits and setbacks of combining computers and education. Before you leave Harvard, you may witness vast transformations in everything from library catalogues to campus communications...
...patient here an his condition is fair," said a Cambridge Hospital attendant who declined to be identified...
...news in Houston was the remarkable success of alpha interferon (one of the three major types of the substance) in fighting an unusual cancer known as hairy-cell leukemia (because of the hairy appearance of the malignant cells). The disease is usually treated by removing the patient's spleen, but this seems to help in only about half the cases. For the other half, there was no viable treatment until interferon was tried. Two reports presented at the conference showed that interferon can be effective in up to 90% of hairy-cell patients, greatly reducing or completely reversing all signs...
Soon after, according to published reports, Mengele was living in the well- to-do Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos and practicing medicine with impunity, though without a license. On one occasion, it is said, a patient died while Mengele was performing an abortion on her, and he found himself in jail. Two hours later a friend posted bail, and the "Angel of Death" was free once again. In the late '50s, after Peron had been exiled and the West German government had issued a request for Mengele's extradition, the doctor moved again, this time to Paraguay...