Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alzheimer's victims. The study, reported in last week's Nature, suggests that Alzheimer's may not begin in the brain, as has generally been assumed. This new knowledge could lead to a practical skin test for detecting the disease and may eventually help scientists learn how to prevent...
...increased number of Moral Reasoning courses this spring would prevent classes from being overloaded, Lewis said...
...While I don't necessarily agree with some of his views, I'm glad that there is someone as intelligent and engaged as he is to represent those views. I hope that his indiscretions, although indiscrete, do not prevent him from being a productive member of Congress," Fishman said...
...There is a very close connection between being a doctor and being a politician," Brundtland observed the next day, speaking in the earnest, faintly academic style that betrays both her Harvard degree and her Calvinist roots. "The doctor first tries to prevent illness, then tries to treat it if it comes. It's exactly the same as what you try to do as a politician, but with regard to society." Which may help explain why this physician offers such a radical prescription for running a country and restoring its health, and why last week's national elections, in which...
...Securities has introduced a fuzzy stock-market investment program for signaling shifts in market sentiment. Canon is working on a fuzzy auto-focus camera. Matsushita has delivered a fuzzy automobile-traffic controller, and is about to unveil a fuzzy shower system that adjusts to changes in water temperature to prevent morning scaldings. And in the strongest endorsement of the technology to date, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry opened the Laboratory for International Fuzzy Engineering Research in Yokohama and called for funding of some $34 million over the next six years...