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...Force-Navy plane that would save $1 billion or more through "commonality." The Air Force model is turning out well enough, but the Navy is still dissatisfied with its overweight version, and the cost is far above original estimates. The computer approach occasionally cut too close to the bone, as when Army requests for helicopters in 1963 and 1964 were reduced, only to cause shortages in Viet Nam soon after...
...patients. Even this small number of cases made it clear that the enzyme is likely to be effective mainly, against only one common form of "blood cancer" - acute lymphatic leukemia. All seven patients with this type of disease showed prompt and marked improvement; among them were three children whose bone marrow stopped making abnormal white cells, at least for a while. An eighth patient, who had acute myelocytic leukemia, also enjoyed a temporary improvement, though three others with this type of disease had none. One patient with a third form of leukemia (monocytic) and two with lymphosarcoma got no benefit...
Every year Congressmen do their best to cut foreign aid to the bone, but in the current session their knives have sliced to the program's very marrow. Last week, after months of dispute between the House and Senate and still more wrangling between the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations committees, the full House finally approved the lowest aid appropriation in the program's history and severely restricted U.S. military-aid activities...
...adjacent vertebrae. To compensate for this difference in length, Murray removed three-quarters of an inch of Proulx's spinal cord at the damaged area, carefully cutting it so that the severed nerve fibers would fit precisely together when reconnected. Murray then cut a matching length of bone from Proulx's vertebrae, completed the operation by rejoining both spinal cord and bone...
...Tigers snaked the ball up to the goal line three times in the first half, only to be stopped by desperate Harvard scrambling, including a bone-breaking tackle by wing Parker Wise...