Word: responded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moore's contention that diet has little impact on cholesterol levels is an oversimplification. Some patients respond dramatically to diet therapy, others hardly at all. The author cites studies showing that people who change their eating habits generally lower their cholesterol levels by 5% to 10%. But Dr. James Cleeman, coordinator of the NCEP, maintains that the typical reduction range is more like...
Some of these circuits are long and slow, so that consequences may take years or generations to manifest themselves. That helps sustain the cowboy myth that nature is a neutral, unchanging backdrop. Moreover, evolution seems to have wired our brains to respond to rapid changes, the snap of a twig or a movement in the alley, and to ignore slow ones. When these consequences do start to show up, we don't notice them. Anyone who has ever been amazed by an old photograph of himself or herself can attest to the merciful ignorance of slow change, that is, aging...
...trial's volunteers were all men who had failed to respond to conventional AIDS therapy, including AZT, so far the only FDA-approved drug for treating the AIDS virus. To obtain accurate readings on Compound Q's effectiveness, volunteers were asked to stop using any other approved or unapproved drugs...
...privatization plan is facing two lawsuits, one from a teachers union arguing that the plan does not allow for enough public oversight and thus violates the state constitution, and another from Hispanic parents charging that city officials did not give the community adequate opportunity to respond to the plan before formally adopting...
Similarly, everyone I speak with who has attended a "re-education" session designed to promulgate the government's version of the Tiananmen tragedy professes to have listened stonily to the government's lies. Those forced to respond claim to have merely parroted the official line verbatim -- a transparent but unpunishable form of dissent...