Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past month, the LaRouche cult has been spreading allegations, totally unsubstantiated, that Dukakis received psychiatric treatment for depression after the death of his brother Stelian in 1973 and after his defeat for re-election as Governor in 1978. Most major news organizations refrained from trafficking in the speculation, but the issue was set simmering when Dukakis, citing personal privacy, balked at releasing his medical records. The Bush campaign then pointedly released a statement describing the Vice President's health as "excellent and vigorous." Bush operatives called news organizations, including TIME, to suggest follow-up stories about Dukakis' medical records...
Water memory was more serious. If true, it meant that water was somehow able to retain a memory of substances that had been dissolved in it. Physicists and biologists would have to drastically alter 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...
...from behind jet-black eyelashes. Last year she wrote and illustrated a book (one copy in circulation so far) with the tongue- twisting title Xavier Xanax Excitedly Xeroxes X-Mas Xylophones and X-Rays in Xanadu. It is subtitled A World Alphabet Book, and all 26 letters receive similar treatment. In a blurb about the author, she writes, "Katie Davis lives in Seattle, Washington, in a house of five. And whenever she gets lonely she just goes off to play with her puppy, Taffy . . . and a lot of times her friends get in fights so she has to make them...
...based watchdog group, 90% of the 1,500 pipelines in the state that are allowed to discharge effluent into the sea do so in violation of regulatory codes. Municipalities flout the rules as well. Even if Massachusetts keeps to a very tight schedule on its plans to upgrade sewage treatment, Boston will not be brought into compliance with the Clean Water Act until 1999 -- 22 years after the law's deadline. Meanwhile, the half a billion gallons of sewage that pour into Boston Harbor every day receive treatment that is rudimentary at best...
Furious at such treatment, Kinnock traded profanities with a rifle- brandishing lance corporal before joining the others inside. Leaning out of the hut, Kinnock challenged the soldiers to ask the corporal "if he knows who I am," and vowed that "he won't be a lance corporal very long...