Word: terme
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...some alums, leaving the alma mater never has been tried. For a number of recent and not-so-recent alums, the University provides postgraduate employment for short- or long-term careers...
Marcos' latest six-year term was due to expire in 1987, but he called the special election to show domestic and foreign critics, particularly in the United States, that he still enjoyed overwhelming support in the Philippines...
...during the next 18 years. He went on to hold top positions in the agriculture departments of California Governor Ronald Reagan and President Richard Nixon. After a six-year stint as head of the American Meat Institute, he returned to the USDA as Deputy Secretary during Reagan's first term as President. In Washington he has earned a reputation as a smooth operator who can handle lobbyists, bureaucrats and even Congressmen, with a cool head. Thus it was no surprise last week when the President nominated Lyng to succeed John Block as Secretary of Agriculture. As farmers struggle with depressed...
Though patients undergoing LDL-pheresis have suffered few side effects, the long-term consequences are unknown. There is a theoretical risk, doctors say, that antibodies in the filter could leach out into the blood and cause allergic reactions. Many believe the inconvenience and expense of the procedure will limit its applicability. Dr. Antonio Gotto, a leading lipid researcher, estimates that a year of weekly treatments would cost $40,000. Even an LDL-pheresis enthusiast like Chazov agrees that it is not "a means of mass treatment for atherosclerosis." For that, he says, one must turn not to miraculous medical intervention...
...repression and an economic revolution. But he actually made few real improvements. True, political opponents were no longer executed as often as they had been under Papa Doc, but the son imitated the father in using the army and the secret police, the dreaded Tonton Macoute (a term for bogeyman in Haiti's Creole dialect) to brutalize the population...