Word: tested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something like this," the President said. "It's simply not fair that middle- class people can be wiped out financially by an unfortunate health problem." But Bowen's numerous critics were quick to raise questions about whether his program should be compulsory, whether it should include a means test, whether private insurance could not do more...
...fact, the latest attack appeared to be neither a serious defeat for the Iranians nor the first round in Tehran's long-threatened offensive, which is expected to begin sometime before March. Rather it seemed to have been an Iranian effort to test Iraqi defenses along the southern front. Nonetheless, the recent Iraqi aerial bombardment may be causing morale problems within Iran. The Khomeini government cannot afford a serious setback on the battlefield, but neither can it afford a widespread civilian reaction against the stalemated...
Gorbachev's glasnost, though, was put to the test in April, when the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl, a then little-known town north of Kiev. At first the Soviet leader abandoned his open style. He dropped out of sight and did not comment publicly on the disaster for 18 days. When he finally reappeared, Gorbachev denounced the West for producing a "mountain of lies" about the accident. But soon glasnost was back; officials and the press began providing information on the accident to a degree unprecedented for Soviet journalism. Criticism diminished, and near...
...uterine lining to receive a fertilized egg. Because the presence of RU 486 blocks the action of progesterone, the uterine lining sloughs off, and the embryo is expelled, as an unfertilized egg is during a normal period. Although bleeding is usually heavier than during menstruation, only a pregnancy test prior to receiving the drug will tell a woman for certain whether she has actually conceived...
Part of the reason RU 486 appears to cause so few side effects is that it remains in the body for less than 48 hours. In addition, it apparently does not impair fertility. One woman in the test group took RU 486 one month, aborted, then became pregnant again and came back for another dose the next month. No information is yet available on what effect RU 486 might have on the fetus if the drug fails to induce abortion; all of the 15 women who sustained their pregnancies after receiving the drug had clinical abortions. Dr. Couzinet hopes...