Word: vigilanteism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yet even Vertes acknowledges that those who have reduced will have to remain vigilant for the rest of their lives. He cautions that unsupervised starvation is not a proper-or, indeed, safe-tactic for shedding a mere 10 to 20 lbs. But for massively obese people, starvation dieting does offer...
Still, he and his doctors will have to remain vigilant. As added insurance against any recurrence of cancer, the Memorial team may offer him an experimental postoperative regimen of two new anticancer drugs, cis platinum and cytoxan. The objective: to kill any small clusters of cancerous cells that may have...
The aim of torture is virtually the same everywhere: to gain information about subversives, terrorists, opposition groups, and to intimidate would-be dissidents. A show of brutality can be a devastatingly effective way of keeping people in line. Yet in many Communist nations this is simply not necessary: the torture...
On the domestic scene, China will no doubt continue to stress production without sacrificing revolutionary fervor. China's press, for example, has been filled recently with Maoist exhortations ?all distinct echoes from the radical rhetoric of the Cultural Revolution ?about the crucial importance of political education and the...
But in its tolerance, the CUHS opens itself to criticism from the other side. Some feel that the Committee is not vigilant enough, that it fails to take its task as seriously as it should and that researchers in the department respond by treating the CUHS and its responsibility with...