Word: preventing
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...pact. Years earlier, they had formed a committee to subsidize Crimond so that he would be free to write what everyone then thought would be an important book of political philosophy. "We were all Marxists once," Gerard notes, but times and beliefs have changed. Still, their humane, liberal inclinations prevent the companions from going back on their word. As Gerard says, "There's nothing we can do except curse privately that we're all spending our money year after year to propagate ideas we detest...
Medical researchers have long known that taking regular doses of aspirin lowers the incidence of heart attack in some people with cardiovascular disease, the nation's leading killer. In study after study since the 1960s, however, they have sought to determine whether aspirin can help prevent heart trouble in healthy individuals. The results have been mixed: while some studies showed that aspirin decreased the number of attacks, others failed to demonstrate any benefit at all. Last week a report in the New England Journal of Medicine found that taking one aspirin every other day dramatically reduced the risk...
...more conclusive statistically. "If you studied 5,000 doctors," he declares, "you'd have to follow them for 20 years to get the same results." Which report is to be believed? Says Sir Richard: "The truth is probably somewhere in between." In his view, aspirin may help prevent about 25% of heart attacks in healthy individuals...
...Senate prerogatives. The Administration has claimed that the classified negotiating record of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty permits it to reinterpret the limits that were ratified by the Senate on testing space weapons. To prevent a similar dispute in the future, Democrat Joseph Biden of Delaware had Shultz present a detailed history of the INF negotiations...
Foreign Minister Shimon Perez accused the Greek government of committing an "unfriendly act" by failing to prevent the voyage...