Word: prolongers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Experiments with mice indicate that sunscreens may not help prevent melanoma even though they protect against sunburn. By giving sunbathers a false sense of security, sunscreens may actually prolong exposure to damaging ultraviolet radiation...
...Despite the questions swirling around the merger, the new offer is enough to prolong the contentious five-month battle for control of Paramount and cast renewed uncertainty over its outcome. With his latest parry -- even if it turns out to be as ineffectual as Diller thinks it is -- Redstone has for the moment denied QVC's chairman the prize he so eagerly desires. Diller, Redstone and Paramount CEO Martin Davis have been locked in combat since September, when Viacom agreed to buy the movie studio for $8.2 billion in a friendly deal. Soon after that agreement, Diller launched...
...More evidence that vitamins can prolong life: a five-year study of nearly 30,000 peasants from rural China discovered that vitamin E, beta-carotene and selenium supplements appeared to reduce cancer deaths 13% and deaths from all causes...
...continuing life becomes pointless. It's as simple as that." Dramatic self-negation would be a fitting exit for Death's Impresario. But last week Kevorkian made an uncharacteristically humble reappearance with suicide No. 16. By underplaying his hand, he may have found a way to avoid jail -- and prolong his controversial crusade...
...further rechannel the health care dollar to pay the pharmaceutical companies. This chunk of the health budget is growing--medical technology continues to surge ahead at a breakneck pace, bringing with it skyrocketing costs for designing and testing frontline drugs. As the average life expectancy lengthens, the desire to prolong a high quality of living will spur the use of more and more expensive medications...