Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once released from the hospital, Christensen will take anti-coagulent medication to fight further blood clotting and undergo physical therapy to rehabilitate the impared right side of his body...
...many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic truths: the victim is considered a pariah because of his indifference to football and "masculine science," i.e., driveway resurfacing. He has yet to master doodah, the company version of gobbledygook...
...Rogosin Institute, Lewis became a guinea pig in an experimental treatment program. Once a week he would drive to the hospital to undergo a procedure called LDL-pheresis, a filtering process that removes from the blood the most dangerous form of cholesterol, known as LDL (for low-density lipoprotein). Now, after a year of treatments, Lewis is remarkably improved. His once crippling angina is "almost nonexistent," he reports. Thick deposits of cholesterol that used to be visible on his hands have largely vanished. He has resumed physical activity. "I'm walking half a mile in eight or nine minutes...
NEWTON--The wife of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov has no guarantee that her temporary visa will be extended so she may undergo eye treatment, the Soviet consulate has reportedly told her family...
Bonner requested the extension last month so she could recover fully from her operation and undergo treatment for glaucoma, set for March, her son-in-law said...