Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with great interest that I read your article related to Spanish politics, "The Unsolved Problems of Succession" [Dec. 11]. In speculating about the political future of Spain, you suggest that "a possibility is a coalition between the army and Opus...
...April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries with minimal scarring, one showed no benefit, and one died (apparently of variolar pneumonia). By contrast, among 97 untreated cases in the district, there were 42 deaths. The doctors suggest that these preliminary results are encouraging enough to warrant further tests...
...were used as controls differed little in medical history or smoking habits. But when coffee consumption was compared, the differences were dramatic. All the heart attack victims consumed appreciably greater quantities of coffee. The Boston group carefully avoids indicting coffee as a cause of heart attacks. Their findings suggest, however, that people already prone to heart problems would do well, when coffee-break time rolls around, to at least skip a second...
...every three Americans now lives in towns, villages or rural areas, more than half in the poll sample said that they would prefer such a setting. That figure is swelled by the ranks of black city dwellers (70%) who want to move out. Conclude the editors: "The figures suggest that if the American people could follow their inclinations, the population of our cities would be cut in half. The proportion of suburbanites would remain the same. The proportion enjoying country life would more than double, from less than two in ten to almost four...
...meteorite (which is how most of the moon's craters are believed to have been formed). As they await the precious samples of orange soil, some scientists are now speculating that Shorty may in fact be no more than 200,000 or 300,000 years old. That would suggest surprisingly recent volcanic activity on the moon, which was believed to have been largely dormant for the past three billion years...