Word: interruptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point that TPA has proved so effective. If given within three hours of the stroke's onset, the clot buster can interrupt the brain's panicked reaction. Damage may be kept so limited that it is imperceptible. Ideally, doctors would like to inject the drug within 90 minutes of the initial attack, underscoring once again the need for stroke suspects to get to an emergency room quickly...
...home in Manhattan. Things started out cordially, but before long, a dispute broke out over abortion, with Robertson challenging Bennett's call for more restrictions on the practice. Bennett showed no deference to a potential benefactor. At one point, as Bennett was arguing, Forstmann kept trying to interrupt: "Bill...Bill...Bill..." To which Bennett replied, "Forget it, Ted, the money's gone by now." Forstmann icily explained that he wasn't thinking of Robertson's money, but of the expensive and fragile chair Bennett was rocking on its back legs. "Now Ted," Bennett retorted, "why would...
...earth, creating a kind of funnel that channels huge quantities of solar plasma into the magnetosphere. In response, powerful currents surge through the high reaches of the atmosphere, where they can utterly scramble broadcast signals, and even through seawater and bedrock. These surface currents can corrode buried pipelines, interrupt transatlantic phone conversations and overheat electrical transformers. In 1989, during the most recent solar maximum, currents induced by a geomagnetic storm brought down the power grid that supplies Canada's Quebec province...
...sprint and the first middle-distance race, although one woman, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, did win the 200 and the 400 in the '84 Los Angeles Games. But as the sign in the trainer's room at the track stadium says, PEOPLE WHO SAY IT CANNOT BE DONE SHOULD NOT INTERRUPT THOSE WHO ARE DOING...
...fragmented the class, forcing the members to accelerate their college experience and, in most cases, interrupt it with a tour of duty in the military. Even with a sped-up trimester system allowing students to graduate in two-and-a-half years instead of the normal four, only 32 members of the class managed to graduate in June 1946. Most had to return after being discharged from the service to a University which had, in some sense, left them behind...