Word: suppressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it will be directly applicable to organ transplants," she says, "but it may help suppress the immune response...
When tissue is transplanted, "the standard method is to treat the recipient to suppress the T-cell response," according to Faustman. She says that drugs called immuno-suppressive agents are often used for this purpose...
Such praise from a South African head of state would, not so long ago, have been unthinkable. For nearly 40 years, Gordimer has spoken out against apartheid, that crazy quilt of laws and restrictions that enabled the white minority to control and suppress the country's black majority. She has done so in her fiction, although subtly and without tub thumping; she portrays the strains of racial divisiveness and oppression by monitoring their effect on individual characters, recognizable lives. As a private citizen, Gordimer has often engaged in more direct opposition to her government's policies...
...like aspirin. A recent German study showed marked reduction in blood fats, including cholesterol, among people who consumed the equivalent of one clove of garlic a day. The active compounds are probably the same sulfur derivatives that give garlic its distinctive odor. Other studies suggest that sulfur compounds may suppress the development of stomach cancer in humans and breast cancer in laboratory animals. Garlic does not have to be eaten raw, but deep frying and high heat could destroy its active ingredients. If the idea of fresh garlic is just too malodorous, a German-based company markets a tablet form...
...nearly a decade, Slovenes have squirmed as state funds have been spent by the Serb-dominated federal government to suppress the Albanian majority in the Serbian province of Kosovo. More recently they watched angrily as the free-market reform program pressed by Prime Minister Markovic was undermined by Serbia, whose leadership still suffers from a communist hangover. After last week's hostilities, Slovenes see only more evidence of wastage of their hard-earned dinars. "We bought them tanks and guns," says Franci Mavric, a taxicab driver in Sezana. "Now they want to kill us with them...