Word: use
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Meyers' ingenious group portrait shows his subjects linked by a kinship of misery. Colleagues praised Roethke's hectic, incandescent verse and gossiped about his violent breakdowns. He described his electroshock therapy in rhyme: "Swift's servant beat him./ Now they use/ A current flowing/ From a fuse." The jolts were useless. He died of a sudden heart attack at 55. Jarrell was not content to be the best poetry reviewer of his time, says Meyers, "he had to be a great, perhaps the greatest poet -- or he was nothing." It was during one dark time that the writer, 51, fell...
...Internal Revenue Service in back taxes. He insists that he plans to deliver his entire can stash to the district IRS office in lower Manhattan. IRS Spokesman Neil O'Keeffe says, "There's no provision for paying taxes with cans." So for all its utility, there is evidently one use to which the can cannot...
After months of controversy, the Food and Drug Administration last week ended its ambivalent attitude toward a genetically engineered drug that dissolves blood clots. FDA Commissioner Frank Young announced that the agency had approved the use of tissue plasminogen activator, or t-PA, as an emergency treatment for heart attacks. The drug activates an enzyme that destroys fibrin, the protein that binds clots together. Arterial clotting is thought to be a factor in most of the 1.5 million heart attacks suffered annually in the U.S., so t-PA could save thousands of lives. With an injection of the drug, said...
...airport has brought in traffic of another sort: cocaine. Although marijuana is not uncommon on the island, the government views the increasing use of cocaine as disturbing enough to start an antidrug campaign. "We're seeing crimes here we've never seen before," says Jude Duprane, who runs a fast-food kiosk along the bustling harbor of St. George's. But even he admits the bucolic life persists. Says he: "It's still the same old Grenada...
Working in Reagan's favor is the broad consensus that exists on the most urgent economic remedies. Political professionals cannot understand why Reagan has not put his best skill to use and gone to the airwaves, outlining the future, soothing the markets, sharing a sense of purpose and direction to ease the economic angst that is rattling the world economy. Says Jody Powell, who served as Jimmy Carter's press secretary: "Reagan's legacy will be judged by what happens to the economy. That ought to be his absolute No. 1 priority...