Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Researchers at the Harvard Dental School believe small dosages of the antibiotic tetracycline can help treat periodontal disease, the major cause of tooth loss in adults...
...interference in personal lives. Probably the biggest mistake of the campaign was made when a Democratic Party leader said that it was dumb for a top-ranking officer to let himself be captured during the Viet Nam War. The voters let it be known that was no way to treat a hero by giving the underdog admiral the victory with 50.7% to 47.5% of the vote...
...with an unusually delicate task: receiving and caring for the 52 American hostages during their first critical days of freedom. "Officially, we don't even know they're coming here," says a senior member of the hospital staff. "Unofficially, we've been ready to process and treat these people since last November...
This is a reversal we can't afford. If America chose in the late 1800s to ignore populism and place its faith in an expanding economy, to ignore the plagues of race and sex discrimination, and treat the rest of the planet as if it were a warehouse to be looted, it meant trouble for a few generations of Americans. But now we are trying the same thing in a day when the rest of the world demands and deserves a share of the world's wealth. In an age when the fact of scarcity--the idea Reagan...
...volumes that Roth and Elkin have written over the past 20 years are likely to find these two collections of golden oldies a sound investment, a way of consolidating large past pleasures into compact present ones. New readers have a different and equally worthwhile treat in store: the happy discovery of two serious comic writers...