Word: widened
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...brain but in the carotid arteries in the neck. Houston's Dr. Michael E. DeBakey has pioneered with a series of operations to restore full blood flow through a narrowed carotid-by installing a bypass, or cutting out the narrowed stretch, or putting in a patch graft to widen the artery. But evaluation of stroke victims' recovery is so difficult that no fewer than 22 medical centers are now doing DeBakey operations and comparing the results with the fate of unoperated patients. It will be a few years before medicine has a collective verdict...
...transitional and ad hoc palliatives, global commodity arrangements, etc." for those less advanced. Similar things happen to Assistant Secretary Nitze, who sounds after one has gone through Hoffmann's wringer disproportionately concerned with maintaining a "unity of command" over N.A.T.O.'s nuclear forces even when the issue may widen political rifts. And Zeckhauser's piece on trade seems to consider all the future in the hands of economic experts concerned only with economic integration...
Pushing the Limits. Encouraging as all this appears, these facts remain: there is a balance of payments gap, it has widened recently, and it is destined to widen further in the current quarter. European banks habitually build up their dollar accounts as "window dressing" for year-end bookkeeping, and this expands the U.S. deficit. Moreover, the U.S. has just about reached the limit in "tying" foreign aid funds to U.S. purchases, and it can hardly jack up interest rates much more during a period of economic sluggishness...
Hughes is a reasonable alternative to the party candidates. He is that occasional but unusual man in American politics, the intellectual radical who wants to widen the range of political discursion. His voice is an extremely useful one at a time when the President, discouraged by a balky Congress, apparently supposes that there is little national support for his most liberal legislation, and insignificant support for legislation even more liberal. Nobody, he evidently feels, is to the left of him; therefore he must moderate his 1960 platform. Carrying through the New Deal programs to their likely conclusions, for example...
Vellucci said he had made "a personal survey" of the Square's traffic problem, and that the only answer was to widen Mass Ave. by destroying the University buildings...