Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's population, including one out of seven Americans. There are dozens of helpful drugs on the market, as well as countless quack remedies ranging from copper bracelets to snake venom. Aspirin, however, remains the treatment of choice. The trouble is that in order to suppress inflammation as well as pain, aspirin often must be taken in megadoses-15 to 20 tablets a day. At such levels, it can cause stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market that grows by a million persons a year in the U.S. alone, pharmacologists keep searching for a better...
...marked change in the way people look at thesauruses," says St. Martin's President Tom McCormack. "Originally they were illustrative; they just listed synonyms. Now they are normative, because people use the thesaurus to find the words they ought to be using." When asked which words he might suppress, McCormack looked up "woman" in his desktop U.S. edition. "Ah hah," he said, "here's 'broad.' I'd want to get that out. And 'wench.' And here's one that's out of the question - 'bit of fluff.' " But what...
...Western response to the Polish crisis. There must not be any weakness in the face of those who suppress the Polish people. There are leaders in Europe-I won't mention their names-who, while Afghanistan was being occupied, met with Brezhnev in Warsaw [former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing] or Moscow [West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt], This, to me, was an act of weakness...
...criticism as pointed, as personal or as outrageous as it was last week. Angered by a report on ABC'S 20/20 describing Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, Ze'ev Chafets, director of the government press office, charged that certain U.S. and European news organizations suppress negative stories on Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization because they fear terrorist reprisals. The supposed culprits: the New York Times, Washington Post, British Broadcasting Corp. and ABC. "I don't think that it's always, or even usually, the newsmen on the spot who are necessarily intimidated...
...bill is fairly frightening in terms of giving tools to the government to suppress the kind of protests we've seen in this country in the last 15 years or so," said Jonathan R. Beckwith, a biology professor who singed the letter...