Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their view of matter, and pharmacologists would have to rethink conventional drug treatment. Moreover, homeopathic medicine, a fringe practice in the U.S. that is widespread in France, would get a boost. Homeopaths believe that extremely dilute solutions of some potentially harmful drugs, vigorously shaken -- a common homeopathic technique -- can treat disease...
...Most people who break a law, he said, are not prosecuted unless they have a clear criminal intent. McKay said he had found none in the case of the Attorney General, and although he considered the deterrent value of such a highly visible indictment, he had decided not to treat Meese as a special case. Said McKay: "It was a real tough decision -- what message is this going to send out to the public?" McKay's major findings...
...Maschal, architecture critic for the Charlotte Observer. "The Overstreet Mall system creates a biracial society." Sam Bass Warner Jr., a Boston University urban historian, sees skywalks as a symbol of urban abandonment, not reinvigoration. They are, he says, "a sign that we've given up on the street. They treat the street as essentially an automobile place. That is going to make for a very poor downtown...
...means fiscal irresponsibility. Republicans accuse Democrats of it; Democrats hysterically deny it. Reagan says Dukakis is "a true liberal who, instead of controlling Government spending, raises taxes." Of course Reagan also raised taxes, and certainly didn't control Government spending. But he hypnotized the voters into thinking they could treat "liberalism" like one of those magazine-subscription deals where you can write "Please cancel" on the bill and keep the first few issues anyway...
...from Reagan, does it make any difference that no one wants to be called a liberal anymore? Yes. Politics has always contained a large dollop of hypocrisy. But under Reagan, hypocrisy has swollen to the point that it covers many of the most important questions politics is supposed to treat. And that has real consequences. America's mountainous debts are a concrete expression of the nation's determination to enjoy liberalism without acknowledging it, and therefore without paying...