Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...earlier wars, people cheered, the soldiers went marching off, the battles got fought, then after a time the bodies -- and the cost of it all -- started coming home. Reality had its cause and effect, its dramatic pace. Now the natural rhythms of warmaking have gone electronic -- a good thing, possibly, but disconcerting. Time gets dismantled somehow; slaughter gets projected into the hypothetical. The adrenaline rushes prematurely; the cost gets reckoned before the deployment. So much anticipation overworks the nerves. The process causes hallucinations and jitters. Normally war begins without such neurotic projections...
When the santions really take effect a long time from now, the Kuwaitis under the occupation will be destroyed...
...quick, say Harvard researchers, whopoint out that the conditions of the two studieswere not general enough to make any conclusionsabout the drug's overall effect...
Generally, diseases such as those studied inthe Hanover project go though a long promotionstage of 20 years or more, says Mathews-Roth,before the tumor erupts in full force in the body.Any test to measure a drug's effect on skincancer, she contends, whould require monitoringthe patient though both the promotion andinitiation stages, many more years thanGreenberg's study...
...Given the long latency of skin cancer, it isnot surprising that no effect of treatment...wasevident during five years of follow-up," wroteHennekens and his colleagues...