Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victims agree, is amphotericin B, known as "Ampho the Terrible" to those who have to have it injected into the base of their skull for meningitis. The side effects include nausea, fever and kidney damage. In severe cases, where the fungus has permanently damaged lung or bone tissue, surgical repair may be needed. Since the drugs serve only to suppress the fungus, not to kill it, those who develop a severe case of valley fever may require treatment for years and can never be sure that it will not flare up again...
...decision is still part of the old separatist philosophy. It seeks to repair the damage, but doesn't address the root cause of the problem--the economic malaise of all of New Haven, not just areas surrounding the Yale campus...
...Shetlands accident and its aftermath demonstrate the remarkable ability of nature to repair itself -- even when confronted by an oil spill, one of humanity's more dangerous assaults on Mother Earth. The incident also shows that oil spills are not all the same; alarmist forecasts of ecological devastation, which invariably come after a big spill, are often off the mark...
...fancy footwork represents the beginning of this exercise, it is wrongheaded to beat on the new Administration for slipping its timetable. Speed would be nice, but it is better by far to take the time to get it right at first, rather than do it fast and have to repair mistakes later...
...private shoe stores, but the taxes they were forced to pay to support the public shoe system kept their income too low for this. Worst of all, those dependent on the public shoe system were required to patronize the branch in their neighborhood, even if it was in bad repair, with broken windows, damaged goods and thugs waiting outside...