Word: outweighing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...therapy group that tries to keep blood sugar as close to normal as possible. Some participants, like Ken McDonald, are using insulin pumps. Others inject themselves with insulin four times a day. The results, scheduled for release in 1993, should determine whether or not the benefits of intensive therapy outweigh the risks. Cautions Dr. Saul Genuth of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Cleveland: "Everyone's hunch is that it will be beneficial. But hunches don't count in medicine...
...many students say that the benefits of an unusual name outweigh the problems--so much so that they would consider extending the tradition to the next generation...
...however, the promise of gene therapy appears to outweigh any potential pitfalls. And the acceptance of the new techniques is particularly sweet for longtime advocates. "Twenty years ago, you couldn't utter the phrase gene therapy without being told you were talking nonsense," says Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a molecular geneticist at the University of California, San Diego. "Now it's taken for granted that it's coming." He sees the day when doctors will be able to treat not only the thousands of diseases caused by a single faulty gene but even complex disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimer...
Iliescu's background as a former senior Communist Party official failed to outweigh the personal popularity he has won since the Front came to power last December. Working in his favor were generous food imports, an end to miserly controls over heat and light, and a go-slow approach to economic reform that has so far avoided layoffs and higher prices. The relative obscurity of his opposition rivals and their lack of support among rural and industrial workers also helped. Iliescu has said he will model Romania's economy on that of Sweden, while retaining government control of heavy industry...
That is the hope. However, it is by no means a certainty. The prospects for economic recovery are bleak. Moreover, even if reform does succeed, it may not outweigh the divisive forces that are now so evident. Politics, after all, is not just a rational accounting of assets and liabilities. All too often, the national aspirations that drive politics take on a wholly irrational character. Even if the central government applies massive and benign economic leverage by offering all sorts of inducements to the republics to stay, it may not deter them from trying to secede...