Word: treating
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...make a case that this is a serious threat to the nation's health or safety. They should wait until the research is in." MDMA boosters cite case histories to argue that Ecstasy can act as a catalyst in therapy by neutralizing emotional defenses. MDMA has been used to treat patients ranging from a painter with "artist's block" to abused children. "In the proper treatment setting, it can lower a person's fear of emotional injury," declares Santa Fe Psychiatrist George Greer, who has used MDMA with 75 patients. "A person can think about things, talk about things that...
Black is best known for his discovery of two important classes of therapeutic drugs, one of which is used to treat a side range of heart disorders and another which is used to treat pepticulcers...
...Ordinarily Pickens would have responded by simply cashing in his 12% share of the company and walking away with a fat profit. Unocal made him exempt from the offer, however, which was a daring strategy since companies generally presume that the law requires them to treat all stockholders equally. Yet in a surprising reversal of a lower-court decision, Delaware's Supreme Court upheld Unocal's plan to cut the hostile raider out of the deal...
...tugging on is bound to lead to the very top of the social order. That is just fine with Director Ritchie, whose best work (Smile, The Bad News Bears) is acutely observant of manners and morals on every rung of the American ladder. Here everything from the way members treat servants at a posh tennis club to direct-mail advertising receives a glancing satiric blow from his camera. Even the car chase in Fletch is witty and believable and something an adult can attend without flinching. As the adolescent revels of summer wear on, that alone could make...
...fear that if they do not share in those discoveries, they could be left in a technological backwater. They hope too that if they become partners in the research, they will gain a voice in Washington's decisions on whether to deploy a Star Wars defense and how to treat SDI in negotiations with the Soviets. Says Horst Teltschik, senior security adviser to West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl: "Maybe in joining SDI we can enhance our own influence...