Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the therapies still have drawbacks. After all, resorting to injections or using a vacuum machine can take some of the spontaneity out of sex. So researchers are experimenting with more sophisticated techniques: a pacemaker-like device to stimulate the nerves that initiate an erection and new drug-delivery systems that use long-term skin patches to replace frequent injections. Now that doctors have found ways to treat impotence, the goal is to make the remedies seem less intrusive and more natural...
...often impossible to retrieve a patient's blood, particularly in trauma cases in which the victim of a shooting or highway accident has lost an enormous amount at the scene. Since blood is not always readily available in these circumstances, researchers are seeking a synthetic hemoglobin for emergency use...
Scientists at a number of centers are also trying to develop ways to increase the body's own production of red blood cells. Doctors at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago are testing a technique that seems to fill the bill. They use a genetically engineered copy of a compound called erythropoietin, a hormone made in the kidneys that controls red-cell production...
...knows how to persuade the Israelis to cooperate with American efforts in the region. Last spring Shultz waged a similar single-handed campaign on behalf of a memorandum of agreement that strengthened Israel's unique military and economic ties to the U.S. He resisted suggestions that the U.S. should use the memorandum negotiations to persuade Israel to moderate its strong-arm tactics against the Palestinian intifadeh...
There is no mystery about the cause of the stepped-up slaughter. Says Raymond Kelly, an assistant chief of police in New York City: "We think the increase has a direct correlation with the use of crack," the cheap and readily available cocaine derivative. Kelly's figures show that the share of killings in New York that are drug-related has climbed steadily from about 25% in the early 1980s to almost 40% this year. The problem is double edged. On one hand, crack abusers frequently seem indifferent to the use of deadly force. On the other, the street-level...