Word: sided
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Retrovir is a palliative, not a cure, and frequently causes serious side effects. Nonetheless, demand is expected to be strong, not only from the nation's 14,000 AIDS patients but from an even larger number with ARC (AIDS- related complex). The question before them: How to pay? About 40% of AIDS patients are covered by Medicaid. In New York and California, Medicaid officials have already decided to reimburse the cost of Retrovir treatment, but other states may choose not to pay for the drug...
...Poindexter believes that he was following Ronald Reagan's policies and that he kept the President adequately informed. Indeed, he is likely to testify that on at least two occasions in 1986, he told Reagan in general terms that the contras were being helped as an ancillary or side benefit of the arms deals with Iran...
...light for the 10-m.p.h. increase. The new speed limit is a rider to an $88 billion authorization bill for highways and mass transit that may be vetoed by the President. Ronald Reagan, who is all for upping the speed limit, feels that the bill is on the expensive side. Congressmen, however, want those federal dollars for their states, and will gun their engines to fight a veto...
...larger, harmless virus, which served as a carrier. (The larger virus was vaccinia, once commonly used to prevent smallpox.) When tested in baboons and a chimp for one year, this hybrid stimulated the animals to produce antibodies not only to vaccinia but to the AIDS virus, with no apparent side effects...
...being exposed to AIDS. Zagury took a step in this direction late last November when, with approval from the government in Kinshasa, he gave his experimental vaccine to eight healthy volunteers in Zaire, a country where AIDS is rampant. If they remain free of the infection and experience no side effects, a wider test might be warranted...