Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water to keep their houseplants alive. Weyerhaeuser, the Tacoma, Wash.-based forest-products company, believes this problem may now be solved. Last week the firm began selling plants, trees and flowers that have been put into a kind of permanent "sleep." Weyerhaeuser owns the North American rights to the treatment, in which nontoxic preservatives are injected into the plants. The process, which also permits the use of dyes to transform green plants into red ones, has been available on a limited basis in Europe since the 1970s. Oaks, palms and eucalyptus trees, as well as indoor plants like baby...
...fiscal-1988 budget plan last week Reagan beat a quiet retreat: he proposed a slash of $913 million, to about $3 billion, in funds for fighting drug abuse. Grants to state and local governments for drug law enforcement would be eliminated, and funding for drug education and treatment would be trimmed. Said Mayor Joseph Riley of Charleston, S.C., who heads the U.S. Conference of Mayors: "To state and local government efforts to fight drugs, this budget just says...
...that the new funding levels might embarrass the President, the Administration prepared a number of elaborate statements to explain the cuts. It argued that massive infusions for capital purchases -- such as helicopters, surveillance equipment and laboratory gear -- need not be repeated each year and that funds for education and treatment should be "stretched out" over two years. The White House pointed out that although proposed funding was being reduced, total spending to fight drugs in 1988 will still be 2 1/2 times as large as in 1981, when it totaled $1.2 billion...
...implications are enormous," neurologist Albert Galaburda said. If dyslexia can be diagnosed in small children then proper treatment for overcoming the disorder could begin at an early age, the assistant professor of neurology said...
Even if special treatment is denied them, the emigres seem determined to make the best of their new lives. "A lot of people make a mistake in thinking they can run away from problems," said Lidya Klever. The children of some returnees appeared particularly stoic. Said Olga Sinyavina, 15, who spent the past nine years in New York City: "Yeah, it will be difficult at first, but I'll get used...