Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...call the Supreme Court's decision in favor of preferential treatment for veterans competing for public jobs "a setback for women's rights" [June 18]. Giving vets job preference is nothing but a little affirmative action by a Government that took away their freedom for a time...
...before noon. No medications seemed to help. That was a year ago. Today Rachel can dress easily, do household chores and climb up the nine flights of stairs to her doctor's office. Her startling rejuvenation is in part the result of a novel experimental treatment that may eventually help many other victims of severe rheumatoid arthritis as well...
...treatment is admittedly still expensive (hundreds of dollars per session) and untested for long-term effects. But even as a research tool it may prove valuable. Says Klinenberg: "If we can identify the troublesome factors in the white cells or plasma, maybe we can do something to provide lasting relief or even a cure...
American officials fret that bitterness over the contracts may handicap the small progress made by Washington in improving ties with the regime. The men close to Khomeini could not care less. One suspicion is that the Ayatullah is willing to single out U.S. firms for harsh treatment, thus hoping to trigger a total rupture in American-Iranian relations...
...third, time in six months, the price-fixing cartel will lift the cost of its crude, and the question is how much more of such treatment the world economy can endure. Since last December, official, cartel-wide increases have pushed up the basic cost of mankind's most important energy resource by 14.5%, gravely inflaming global inflation. Worse, surging demand has enabled the OPEC nations to tack on one premium and surcharge after another, raising the actual price for most grades by as much as 30%, to $17 or more per bbl. Next week such cartel militants as Iran...