Word: supplemental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promised myself that if you did it again, I'd write this letter. And now you've done it again. You've printed (on page 13 of your April 15 Books Supplement) your favorite picture of Jimmy Carter, with his eyes close, his nose wrinkled, his throat straining against a post-nasal catarrh...
...MUST SHARE THE BURDEN). Then the next week, some 100 advance issues of the Sunday Globe appeared with the wrong edition of the syndicated Parade magazine supplement; instead of the intended cover story about TV's Walter Cronkite, readers of these were treated to a feature on New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, who may be the most unpopular personality in Red Sox-mad Boston since King George...
...years will pass before it becomes widely available. "In terms of research," says Dr. Ernest Borden, a cancer specialist at the University of Wisconsin, "we're only about 2% of the way along toward widespread clinical application." And should interferon become plentiful, it would probably be used as a supplement to, rather than a replacement for existing treatment. Warns Dr. James Holland, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai School of Medicine: "There are no breakthroughs in cancer treatment." Then he adds: "Come back in a year and ask me about interferon then. I bet I'll have some really exciting things...
...steered the truck around a rickshaw-senior citizens in our town have begun to supplement their Social Security payments by pulling carts, since the dollar floated loose from its moorings-and answered confidently: "U.S. citizen, U.S. born, 35 years of age, not presently residing in jail." I laughed at my own joke. "I just made up that last part," I said...
Some came and stood outside in the cold, staring anxiously up at the windows of the modern, nine-story clinic. Others gathered in groups during the lunch hour to exchange murmured bits of gossip that might supplement the meager medical bulletins. Each day last week, small crowds huddled in front of the medical center in Ljubljana, the Slovenian capital, where Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito continued to wage a formidable but apparently hopeless struggle for his life...