Word: successful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Murdoch said he attributed the drive's success partly to efforts to target the freshman class, including a special blood drive and a table at the freshman activities fair in September...
...blood vessel is opened and scraped clean. Doctors also bypass blockages by grafting sections of an abdominal artery around narrowed branches of the iliac artery that lead to the penis. This operation is similar to the one done on clogged coronary arteries, but does not have as high a success rate. Vascular surgeon Ralph DePalma of Washington thinks that vessels to the penis are more fragile because they are subjected to sudden surges in blood pressure...
...least in the Baltics. At a hastily summoned session of the Supreme Soviet's Presidium on Saturday, he denounced Estonia's actions as "erroneous." But the Soviet leader admitted a need to "improve considerably" the disputed constitutional amendments before they become law. Said he: "We cannot count on success if our transforming work does not take into account the interests of all nations living in our vast country...
...sipping champagne and explaining his trade: "We sell drugs and we kill." Often the victim is gunned down at close range in public, with little attempt to conceal the killer's identity. Witnesses who testify about such murders often become targets themselves. Indeed, overburdened police forces have had little success in breaking the power of the drug gangs, even when they have adopted systematic buy-and-bust tactics or resorted to the dragnet-style crackdowns pioneered by Los Angeles police. Homicide experts predict that the havoc will continue until the demand for crack can be brought under control by better...
Relief organizations have been struggling to fill the gap, but with limited success and under considerable danger. Miami-based Southern Air Transport is under contract to the U.N. to fly in maize from Uganda. The S.P.L.A. has vowed to shoot relief planes out of the sky. In October the first planeload of maize actually made it into Juba. Crewmen aboard the C-130 cargo plane peered anxiously through an open escape hatch as their aircraft corkscrewed down to the airstrip, on the lookout for rebel rockets. But even such daring trips cannot begin to save the town from starvation. "This...