Word: undergo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their bombs on the hitherto unattacked capital. Churchill promptly ordered several retaliatory raids on Berlin. Hitler, unaware of his increasing success against the R.A.F. installations, made the mistake of ordering further retaliations against London. And so, while the R.A.F. won a vital reprieve, the citizens of London had to undergo the blitz, the greatest bombardment any city until then had ever suffered...
When he takes the Joint Chiefs job, Powell will need all these skills and more. The Pentagon budget, flat since 1986, is likely to undergo cuts that threaten not only major weapons programs but also the delicate interservice balance that a JCS Chairman must maintain...
...howls of protest from the arts lobby are timely since the NEA this year must undergo its five-year budget review. Congressman Sidney Yates of Illinois, a stalwart supporter of the arts whose subcommittee oversees the NEA, has asked acting endowment chairman Hugh Southern to come up with a way to make the endowment more accountable for its grants without opening the door to congressional micromanagement. Southern says he hopes to produce "something that's agreeable to all parties that doesn't get into any kind of chilling of expression...
...best thing to do?). A report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that one type of prostate surgery works better than an increasingly popular alternative operation. The American Urological Association is planning an intensive comparative study of the long-term prospects of patients who undergo one of the two procedures...
...misinterpreted if doctors are not aware of biological rhythms. For instance, patients may react more strongly to allergy tests that are given in the evening than to the same tests done in the morning. Last week Dr. William Hrushesky of Albany Medical College reported that women who undergo mastectomies during their menstrual period appear to have a higher risk of dying from breast cancer within five years than women who are operated on in the middle of their monthly cycle. Hrushesky speculates that hormones produced during menstruation somehow have a negative effect on the body's immune system...