Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With this insight, scientists could more accurately predict an individual's vulnerability to such obviously genetic diseases as cystic fibrosis and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. The same would be true for more common disorders like heart disease and cancer, which at the very least have large genetic components. Better knowledge of the genome could speed development of gene therapy -- the actual alteration of instructions in the human genome to eliminate genetic defects...
...dramatic events took their toll on Lorenzo. "I'm not going to kid you by saying that some of those efforts haven't hurt my family and me," he said last week. "They have." Lorenzo maintains that he has done everything in his power to prevent Eastern from folding. He recalls the options that former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman described for the airline in 1986: "Fix it, sell it, or tank it." Unable to fix it, Borman sold it. As the bankruptcy court now begins to address the formidable task of putting Eastern back together again, Lorenzo was facing...
...punch-drunk during all-night budget sessions, but this week the humor started at 2 p.m., rather than 2 a.m. In the midst of the final day of deliberations on the $12.3 billion state budget Tuesday, freshman Rep. Paul C. Casey '83 (D-Winchester) introduced an amendment to prevent the closing of the popular Stone Zoo in his district...
Both Newhouse and Manning said they hoped their study will help in the debate over "sin" taxes, adding that additional taxes on liquor or cigarettes must be implemented on a federal level to prevent interstate bootlegging...
...novelty of the first library dedicated to undergraduates seems to have dissipated over time, but that will not prevent the library from commemorating its 40th anniversary today. According to Associate Librarian Jon Lanham '70, a jazz band will play in the lobby and refreshments will be served to help Lamont celebrate its birthday...