Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheduled to resume March 12. If those talks are to succeed, added Weinberger, the Soviets must be convinced that the U.S. is determined to keep adding to its muscle. Testifying last week to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Weinberger insisted that "reductions in the defense budget will prolong negotiations . . . and take away Soviet incentives to agree to reductions...
...week after the Salvadoran Supreme Court threw out the case against the former lieutenant. Nonetheless, the President charged that the rebel plan would not lessen the toll of war. Said he: "The rebels do not want to humanize the conflict because they say it is their strategy to prolong a war to destroy the country. They do not want a truce...
...medical community, though normally receptive to technical innovation, was sharply divided. "There has never been a successful cross-species transplant," declared University of Minnesota Surgeon John Najarian, one of the country's leading pediatric-transplant specialists. "To try it now is merely to prolong the dying process. I think Baby Fae is going to reject her heart." Others defended the experiment. "It's very easy to sit back and be negative when a new treatment is announced," said Dr. John Collins, chief of cardiac surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "If we all were afraid to attempt...
...many men, Oedipal conflict lasts long after they have resolved their feelings toward their mothers. Fathers and sons may skirmish for decades, matching physical prowess, social grace, perhaps sexual daring and, above all, worldly accomplishment. There is rarely a true reckoning; death and memory seem only to prolong the sense of contest. Sons of famous men find the scorekeeping particularly onerous: whatever the offspring's achievements, both generations are likely to suspect that the father's glory enhanced them. That psychic battleground is toured by Michael J. Arlen, 53, a journalist, memoirist and television critic...
Branch said that subsequent studies are in order. He emphasized that this study did not measure the effect of regular physical exercise, or careful dieting. "I sure hope these factors prolong life," he said...