Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However incomplete, the emerging understanding of the immune system's role in Type 1 diabetes has led to an experimental treatment. In Canada and Europe, researchers have weaned diabetics from their insulin shots after giving them cyclosporine, a drug used in organ transplants to suppress the immune system. Doses of cyclosporine, which works by dampening T-cell attacks on the beta cells, have provided dramatic results: many patients have been able to discontinue their insulin shots for up to a year. Still, by undermining the entire immune system, cyclosporine leaves the diabetic more vulnerable to other diseases. And when given...
...majority of the incidents," Rabin said about the recent bloodshed, "the confrontations were the result of our initiative, part of an effort to assure a calming of the situation, to suppress the violence...
Seizinger said he hopes in the future to isolate the protein product of the VHL gene and understand exactly how the gene and its products suppress tumor growth. Then "you might be able to design drugs that interfere with the defective molecules," and stop the growth of tumors...
...regulations are specifically designed to suppress speech, and particularly directed at the suppression of one viewpoint," wrote U.S. District Judge Walter Jay Skinner. "They run directly contrary to the dictates of the First Amendment." The Administration has not decided whether to appeal the decision...
Little wonder, then, that Dole has a dark side and that Bush, with his perky optimism, tends to bring it out. Dole has tried to suppress his brooding bitterness following his hatchet-man performance as the vice-presidential Republican candidate in the 1976 campaign. Since then, he has gone through two political make-overs designed to improve his body language and soften his style...