Word: virtual
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That the patients were only laboratory mice did not detract from the results: 100% cured of colon cancer that had spread to the liver, 50% cured of colon cancer spread to the lungs. These are remarkable cure rates for malignancies that are virtual death sentences for both mice and people. The encouraging results were announced last week by a researcher of near celebrity status, Dr. Steven Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute. It was Rosenberg who, as spokesman for the team of doctors performing colon surgery on Ronald Reagan, shocked the nation last year by announcing on television, "The President...
...coffee and cocoa, the California-size land is one of the most economically stable countries on the continent. While much of Africa is hunger plagued, Cameroon (named by Portuguese settlers after the camaroes, or large pink prawns, found in vast quantities off the country's Atlantic coast) has achieved virtual agricultural self-sufficiency...
While the coasts have enjoyed rapid growth in high technology and such service industries as banking, advertising and insurance, many heartland states have been held back by their dependence on depressed agriculture, oil and declining smokestack industries. The virtual disappearance of inflation (consumer prices did not rise at all in July, and for the first seven months of 1986 they actually declined .2%) has had uneven regional effects. % Overall stability has masked what a Reagan Administration official calls a "worldwide deflation" in commodity prices that has struck hard at farmers. More recently, the collapse of oil prices has depressed states...
...dabble in free markets and private initiative. Dubbed "goulash Communism," Hungary's balancing act between socialism and capitalism is Janos Kadar's legacy to his country. In 30 years, his public image has come full circle. If open elections were held tomorrow, Kadar, at 74, would win by virtual acclamation...
Building on a century-old tradition (as early as 1888 there were nearly 500 tennis courts in the country), Czechoslovaks have dominated major tennis competitions in recent years, making a virtual sweep of last year's U.S. Open. Says Frantisek Pala, head coach of the national team: "Twenty years ago, parents told their children, 'Play piano.' Now it's 'Play tennis.' And we are getting results...