Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate, Reagan suddenly began to worry about complaints from the excluded candidates. Be sides, was it really to his advantage to treat Bush as the only other major candidate? Reagan operatives began calling the other candidates - Senator Howard Baker, Senator Robert Dole, Representative Phillip Crane and Anderson -- to invite them to the debate. Although Bush told the news paper that he would reluctantly agree to a six-man debate, he was not told of the Reagan camp's maneuvers-whether accidentally or by design is up to each voter to decide for himself...
...exchange, Colombian Red Cross volunteers carted 20 crates of food and supplies into the embassy compound and sent in doctors to treat a wounded woman guerrilla. At week's end the remain ing five women hostages were freed by the terrorists. The way was thus paved for negotiations over the release of the hostages left behind...
Because doctors commonly believe that the causes of impotency--the inability to achieve erection at least 25 per cent of the time during attempted intercourse--are psychological, they usually treat it solely as a psychological problem. But the study states that "psychotherapy has not proved to be consistently effective in alleviating impotence...
...reflectors and Westinghouse lamps of varying lengths that look like fluorescent lights but emit an average total of 560 watts of long-and medium-frequency ultraviolet rays. Unlike the infra-red sun lamps used at home, these lights give off very little heat. Doctors have long used them to treat serious skin conditions; the franchisers have merely put them in tanning booths. One minute under the lamps is said to equal an hour in the summer sun; sometimes ten visits are needed before the "sun worshiper" starts sporting that January-in-Acapulco look. Customers may wear a bathing suit...
...only for the symbolic significance of such a stand, but also to hurt the Soviet economy and wound their pride. By not participating in the Games, he hopes to make an international statement of our condemnation of their occupation of Afghanistan (and also of the way that they treat dissidents), yet it is doubtful this statement will have any effect on the USSR. When Vladimir Pozner, a Soviet radio commentator, was asked about the boycott, he replied that if we were trying to punish the USSR by boycotting the Olympics, we would fail. The Soviet Union, like the United States...