Word: weres
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After years of activists' complaints about abuses in Soviet psychiatric facilities, 26 American psychiatrists, lawyers and interpreters last March toured such institutions in the U.S.S.R. and interviewed more than two dozen patients whose hospitalization had been questioned. The watchdog group concluded that while improvements had been made, disturbing evidence remained...
The twin fetes had all the glitz and hoopla of a Hollywood premiere. Champagne flowed freely, and soft jazz whispered in the background. Guests nibbled on caviar and smoked-salmon quiche. The big bashes, which took place on the same day this month in New York City and Los Angeles...
All told, the computer industry is entering a shake-out phase, in which slowing growth will force some companies to restructure or combine with healthier partners. Instead of the robust annual sales growth of 15% to 20% that the industry enjoyed in the early 1980s, computer revenues will expand an...
Sequestration is the last resort of national politicians unwilling to cut government spending in much the same way that patriotism is called the last refuge of scoundrels. The obscure word, which looks like a refugee from a crossword puzzle, means seizure, and that is what happened last week. President Bush...
Now a respected researcher who was one of the first to use cyclosporine may have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a...