Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steadfastly refusing to treat with Mandela, whom he calls an "arch-Marxist," South Africa's Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha nonetheless began advising his countrymen to "adapt or die" even before Mugabe's landslide victory. He endorsed certain racial reforms in the labor field and began pushing for a constitutional revision that would give nonwhites some limited political voice. But such gestures fall far short of black demands, and Botha is reluctant to press for more substantial changes in the face of strong opposition from his National Party's right wing...
...some 100,000 people were using DMSO, primarily to treat sprains, bruises, minor burns and arthritis. The FDA'S concern about such widespread use of an experimental drug grew into alarm when animal studies indicated that DMSO might cause eye damage. That led to a virtual ban on clinical tests of the drug. But only a year later the restrictions were eased to permit experiments in such hard-to-treat illnesses as interstitial cystitis (a painful bladder inflammation), scleroderma (a condition characterized by thickening and hardening of the skin and sometimes internal organs as well) and rheumatoid arthritis...
Harvard University has failed in its stated commitment to diversity and to its Third World students. In the past fifteen years, the Third World student community at Harvard-Radcliffe has grown from one per cent of the student body to 20 per cent, but the University continues to treat us as an insignificant minority without legitimate needs, history, and culture...
...when they argue that an approach to an issue, a policy or even language used is sexist. The graduate women get the support they need to bring up these concerns publicly from programs and groups like those the Forum organizes. The professors these women are trying to educate to treat women as equal colleagues also teach undergraduate women...
...Ischemic heart disease has a tremendous impact in terms of the health of this country," Austen said. "This study, done in the proper way, will shed light on how to treat...