Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinian movement is a sympathetic one, and in showing how Arafat's role grew out of the frustrations of his early years the study is in a sense sympathetic towards its protagonist--although the reader is not left with a particularly warm regard for Arafat. Kiernan's treatment is admirably detached and well-balanced--his critique of Arafat is implicit rather than blatant...
Kiernan's book is also a bit disappointing towards the end, for he basically wraps up his detailed treatment of Arafat and Fatah in 1965, following it with a quick run-through of events during the past decade. While it is probably more important to give a detailed narrative of the earlier years, since less is known of them and they provided the psychological as well as political basis for Arafat's subsequent actions, Kiernan would have strengthened his treatment by not running out of steam before the reader's curiosity runs out. The superficial outline of events from...
Fine Arts 13, Introduction to the Economics of Art. Intended to increase the student's perception of the value of works of art; advantages of ownership over creation, with special reference to the tax treatment of capital gains...
...College of Georgia and Dr. J.W. Black of University College of London. Their work led to the development of the drug propranolol (Inderal), which the Lasker jurors, headed by Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey, hailed as one of the most important drugs of the century for its role in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension) and heart disease, the nation's No. 1 killer...
...Angeles, Trouper Katie returned to work in a wheelchair. Heavyweight Boxer Jerry Quarry, whose pickup truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took a fall while filming a Foreign Legion adventure called March or Die. His horse was frightened by a camel...