Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authorities were divided in their explanations of fatal reactions to cocaine. "The most likely explanation," said Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a cocaine expert at Harvard Medical School, "is that this man was extremely sensitive to cocaine, as some people are sensitive to almost any drug. It's not clear how rare this is, but it's not common." Mitchell Rosenthal, director of New York City's Phoenix House, a drug rehabilitation group, disagreed. He thinks that cocaine may frequently cause death by cardiac arrest. "Over the past three years," he said, "the evidence has been coming out of medical examiners' offices...
...these past 13 weeks. "I am equally interested in diseases and people," says Sacks, who teaches and practices in New York City, and his accounts of loss, excess and aberration always seek the individual behind the disorder. Perhaps because such a readable combination of erudition and compassion is so rare, Sacks' four books have earned him a quasineurological disorder of his own: the assault of fame. "There are too many letters and phone calls," he laments. "After a while I long to get away." He has just done so, visiting his home in London. One's roots can, after...
Most of the argument against sanctions is based on South Africa's relative strength. The country produces much of what it needs, including armaments, nuclear power and more than 50% of its oil through a coal-liquefaction process. Three of its leading exports--gold, platinum and diamonds--are rare and easy to sell. Others, such as chromium and manganese, are in high demand for strategic reasons. Yet it would be wrong to conclude that South Africans are unconcerned by the debate: a recently published opinion survey of the country's whites showed that 71% believe the South African economy...
...Senate floor, the transition rules faced a rare attack, mounted by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, who branded many of them "greed rules." Metzenbaum got the Unocal rule deleted with Packwood's support. One reason: Packwood had a score to settle with California Republican Pete Wilson, the rule's co-sponsor. But otherwise, Senators were of a mind to add rather than subtract. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens complained that the privilege of inserting transition rules in the bill was being hogged by Finance Committee members...
Researchers focus instead on basic scientific study, and they receive industry support because "they are leaders in their field and companies hope for rare basic findings that will give them a window on current science and help them target internal research resources more effectively," Brinton said...