Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mystery was not about [the body's] rejection." It is about the intermingling of cells, the achievement of a peaceful truce between the patient and the donated organ. Rather than beating the patient's immune system into submission with drugs until it accepts the donor organ, Starzl realized, the trick is to convince both the body's defense mechanism and the new organ that the intruder is really "self," a recognized member of the host body...
...College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Boston's Northeastern University, as well as by other researchers, including Judith Thomas, director of the Transplant Center at the University of Alabama. They have found that by first transplanting some donor bone marrow into the recipient animal, it is possible to trick the animal's immune system into accepting a solid-organ transplant almost as if it were native to its own body--just as Starzl suggests will be the case in humans. That in turn allows them to use lower doses of immunosuppressive drugs--and then phase...
...installments having shipped more than 3,000,000 copies, and four of the five currently occupying positions on the New York Times paperback best-seller list, which all but guarantees that the sixth and concluding installment, in stores this week, will also be a hit. It's a nifty trick: at $2.99 a pop for each roughly 90-page paperback book, and $1 more for the half-again-as-long conclusion, readers of the complete Green Mile will have shelled out a total of $18.94 for what would have cost around $6.99 if it had been a normal, one-volume...
...each major studio film. When I was a studio publicist, we used publicity and promotion, at one-twentieth the cost of ads. Each of the eight major Hollywood studios could save $30 million annually by alerting audiences through publicity, wholesale purchases of radio time and on the Internet. The trick is to get into enough minds the idea that a movie to see is coming. If this is done inexpensively, Hollywood will segue from red to green. JULIAN MYERS Los Angeles...
...painfully bland dialogue of the move-the-plot sort, as if the writers were fearful of departing from the formulaic awkwardness of courtship. O'Connell as Joe gamely spends his time undergoing the gags tossed at him throughout the movie, but usually sounds even more stilted than this one-trick-bug of a movie allows. Ward's Lily isn't given much to do but be pursued, compliment Joe and act nobly...