Word: adding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...environmentalists and engineers are frantically coming up with plans to save New Orleans. One idea is to raise levee walls to increase their effectiveness against storm surges. Another is to create large-scale diversions that would allow the Mississippi to flood in a controlled manner--and through sedimentation add thousands of acres a year of new land. Yet another would be to take immediate steps to reverse the loss of sensitive wetlands. Adding land through sedimentation is one of the best ways of restoring wetlands. Among other possible schemes: cutting back on shipping routes that harm marshes, installing wave absorbers...
...Clinton's audience is nearly 2 to 1 Republican, and the GOP is looking to add to that margin in November. Never mind Congress, where Clinton torpedoed the Democratic majority with health care in 1993 and proceeded to triangulate his colleagues into fractious irrelevance in '96. Sure, he whipped Newt and nailed the Republicans on impeachment, but if folks liked Clinton in the White House, they liked Republicans in their statehouse. The governorships are where likable, pragmatic Republicanism has taken hold, and the 2000 election is likely to be a showcase for just that...
...point of making her more tender moments with Greene slightly unconvincing), her skills as a vocalist add a tremendous amount and create the production's best musical moments...
...patients with skin ulcers, ulcerative colitis and mucosal damage due to chemotherapy, and may be expanded to burn and smoke-inhalation sufferers. And while most scientists disagree with his iconoclastic views, Haseltine is getting results: besides repifermin, his firm has three drugs in clinical trials and expects to add two or three more next year. That puts HGS far ahead of any other company...
...Medical School. "Discovery is intoxicating," he says. "But the consequences of discovery are often complex, and instead of progress, it can lead to disaster." Delbanco is worried that the revolution in genetic medicine may further drain the limited amount of time that physicians have to spend with patients and add even more costs to the already expensive health-care system...