Word: tested
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...spend six years writing a biography of Jacqueline Susann, author of the definitive '60s trash trinity, Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine and Once Is Not Enough? Perhaps it was Susann's unique amalgam of poignancy and chutzpah. Her pores were too big to pass a screen test, she could not sing or dance, she was too short to be a model and, after 25 years of trying, she was nowhere as an actress. She drank heavily and was addicted to pills, and her autistic son had to be institutionalized. When cancer struck, she made a pact with...
...stigmatize Hook as a collector of grievances and negatives. In fact, an almost heroic optimism invigorates his work. Twice in old age, he notes, his heart has stopped, and once he asked to be taken off life-support systems, only to be refused. Yet he feels that "the test of whether a human being has enjoyed a happy life is whether, if it were possible, he or she would accept another round of it. By this test I have had a happy life...
...acid test for the vaccine, of course, would be for Zagury to inject himself with live AIDS virus to see if he is truly protected. But that, he admits, "would be crazy." The next best thing is to test the vaccine in people who, because of their life-style or environment, have a high risk of being exposed to AIDS. Zagury took a step in this direction late last November when, with approval from the government in Kinshasa, he gave his experimental vaccine to eight healthy volunteers in Zaire, a country where AIDS is rampant. If they remain free...
Thus when it voted 88 to 2 to give the treaty the status of law, the Senate knew what it was doing: ratifying an explicit ban on the development and testing of space-based, exotic ABMs -- precisely the type of SDI system that the Reagan Administration now argues it can develop and test under its broad interpretation of the treaty. If the Administration persists in its policy, Nunn warned, it risks a "constitutional confrontation" with the Hill and a congressional "backlash" against funding...
...rapid consolidation within the airline business may soon test the limits of the Administration's willingness to go along with the megamergers. Last week Piedmont Airlines announced that it had accepted a $1.6 billion bid from USAir, which already has a deal in the works to buy Pacific Southwest Airlines for $400 million. The combination of the three carriers would create the seventh largest U.S. airline, controlling about 7% of domestic traffic. But USAir is itself the target of a $1.6 billion bid by TWA. Carl Icahn, the corporate raider who became TWA chairman last year, may envision...