Word: recommender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking at a special press conference, Sullivan said he chose nine laymen--"Cambridge citizens who have participated in Cambridge life"--to look into the pros and cons of the research and recommend to the City Council whether the research may be harmful to the city's residents...
...something so important to discuss that he could not reveal it on the phone. Schweiker agreed to meet him and Sears in Washington on Tuesday morning. At a 90-minute meeting in Laxalt's office, Sears recalls, "we told him if he was agreeable, we would recommend him. He was quite surprised, but he pulled himself together and he was able to be quite responsive...
Despite their broadsides against annual checkups, doctors do not criticize regular examinations for certain types of illnesses; some tests, in fact, do make economic and medical sense. For example, Vickery and Fries recommend routine blood-pressure tests for hypertension, inexpensive skin tests to spot tuberculosis, Pap smears for women over 25 to detect cancer of the uterus and cervix, and glaucoma examinations for people over the age of 40 if their families have had a history of the eye disease...
...such stock had been taken with greater seriousness in 1939-40, scientists would have agreed to discontinue atomic research, or at least measure the potential gains and losses. Such is the case with recombinant DNA work. The Cambridge review board investigating DNA should think about this stock taking and recommend that the federal government begin a debate on the issue...
Another specimen of European faddism has recently caught on: a Persian rain and sun shield called the umbrella. Although many still regard it as a frivolous affectation, some physicians recommend it as an aid to ward off vertigoes, epilepsies, sore eyes and fevers, and several stores in Boston have started advertising umbrellas at prices ranging from 36 to 42 shillings...