Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...medication can render treatment hopelessly ineffective -- even dangerous. Some people just forget to take pills, and repeated trips to the doctor for shots can be unpleasant and expensive. Tablets and injections can flood the bloodstream with drugs and disperse them unevenly through the system. And drugs can have toxic side effects. With an array of potent, highly specialized new therapeutic drugs on the market, scientists are busy developing a dazzling assortment of space-age techniques that promise to deliver the drugs to the body in safe and effective dosages...
...every morning before dawn for a two-hour workout. But four weeks ago, Mandela suddenly became short of breath. He had difficulty talking, then started coughing up blood. He was transferred from the medical wing of Pollsmoor Prison to Tygerberg Hospital, a major university teaching institution on the other side of Cape Town. Last week Mandela's lawyer announced the diagnosis: tuberculosis...
...works mostly in the relatively small number of cases in which both parties want to come to agreement -- for example, in disputes between business partners who want to go on working together. But to keep growing, the private outfits continue to come up with new offerings. If either side in the Harper-Lorimar case is unhappy with the eventual verdict, for example, some of the rent-a-judge outfits have a new option they could always look into: rent-an-appeals-judge...
...table, a steely old Scot with a military carriage who ought to have side- whiskers introduces his grandson and retells his favorite Muirfield tale of the day Watson both won the 1980 Open and was kicked off the course. With authentic old niblicks and featheries, he had gone back out after hours in the company of the historian Ben Crenshaw, only for a hole or two, to cement his memory. The club secretary, Paddy Hamner, dragged them off by the ears. "But, of course," the grandfather says, "you're on that same sort of mission, aren...
MOST CANDID APPRAISAL OF THE VICE PRESIDENCY. Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson's explanation of why he did not want to be considered for the job. "My wife and I sat down and discussed it, and we made a list of the pros and cons. One side was this long," he said, spreading his arms wide. "The plus side was a big house. A nice place to marry off your daughter...