Word: roberte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though HDL's relationship to coronary heart disease was first noted in 1951, many people are still not being advised by their doctors to raise their good-cholesterol levels. The reason, says Dr. Robert Levy, president of New Jersey's Sandoz Research Institute, is that there is no absolute proof that raising HDL alone can lower a person's risk of heart disease. No convincing body of evidence from animal studies has yet demonstrated the value of raising HDL, and no clinical trial to date has specifically targeted humans with low HDL. "Much the same question existed...
...SEASONS (TNT, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. EST). Charlton ("Moses") Heston tackles another larger-than-life hero, Sir Thomas More, in a new production of Robert Bolt's drama on Ted Turner's cable channel...
...relatively light. (Because of the time difference, however, most events will be shown on tape rather than live.) What's more, NBC will recoup part of its investment by selling the rights for some events to cable. "We didn't go into this to lose money," said NBC president Robert Wright. Increasingly, in the high-stakes world of network TV, it just seems to work out that...
...fourth of what was planned in fatter times. That means eliminating Navy ships, Army divisions and Air Force fighter aircraft envisioned by Caspar Weinberger in the flush years of the early 1980s -- nearly $200 billion in weapons and research programs over the next four years. Said former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara last week: "The DOD is as close to bankrupt as you can get for a Government agency...
Gorbachev's success in recasting the U.S.S.R. as an international good guy is frustrating to many Americans. "It is ironic," says Robert Legvold, a Soviet-affairs expert at Columbia University, "considering that much of what Gorbachev has done the West has advocated, proposed, insisted on for decades -- from human rights to arms control...