Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sunday saw a "Jack Straw" opener, followed closely by "Althea" and the rare treat "High Time," which was fittingly dreamy. Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" was given a spin and would have been better had Garcia not had technical problems that forced him to switch guitars for a time...
...radical though still experimental technique may someday help treat brain cancer. Doctors have used genetic engineering to make tumor cells sensitive to the antiviral drug ganciclovir. When they subsequently administered the drug to patients, five out of seven improved. More extensive tests are in the works...
...neutral now but preparing to go into opposition. Like some nonmedical allies, the doctors are worried about being pushed into rationing care. Specifically, they fear that government-enforced caps on insurance-premium increases will prompt insurers to cut costs by dictating in niggling detail to doctors whom they can treat and how. Nurses, however, take a different view: they happily anticipate playing a more important -- and better-paid -- role in patient care...
...majority of critics are taking an approach of "We know fundamental reform is necessary, but . . ." After the venomous partisanship of the budget fight, and the bipartisan venom of the battle now being joined over the North American Free Trade Agreement, the nation just might be in for a rare treat: a statesmanlike debate on a weighty problem, focusing on substance and conducted in tones of gravity and civility. Well, at least one can hope...
...patter and show-biz smile, he has for years been telling anyone who would listen that video arcades were more popular than movie houses -- and he would rattle off the numbers to prove it. As chairman of Electronic Arts, a leading maker of video games (and the first to treat its programmers like rock stars), he also railed against the electronics industry for failing to agree on a single video-game standard -- a failure that kept the industry locked in the Beta-versus-VHS stage. When nobody appeared interested in building the machine of his dreams...