Word: saving
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...military leaders in Rangoon seemed to have considered every angle save one: if the country's first multiparty balloting in 30 years was actually clean, the ruling powers would be dealt a humiliating defeat. Early returns last week indicated that Aung San Suu Kyi's party, the National League for Democracy, took 392 of the new National Assembly's 485 contested seats. Although final results will not be available for perhaps two weeks, the army- backed party has so far claimed only nine seats. How the remaining parliamentary seats would be apportioned among the other 91 parties was not clear...
Harrison spent five years practicing and refining his technique on hundreds of sheep and monkeys. Even so, his first six operations on human fetuses with problems similar to Blake's failed: he was unable to save the babies because of difficulties encountered in handling their organs. After his success with Blake, Harrison performed a comparable prenatal operation on a little girl, who was also born healthy...
...vice chairman of Chrysler, Gerald Greenwald, 54, was considered the crown prince who would succeed Lee Iacocca as head of Detroit's No. 3 auto company. A quietly self-assured master of finance, Greenwald helped save Chrysler from bankruptcy in the 1970s by cutting production costs and lining up Government financing. But Greenwald stunned Detroit last week with his decision to quit the troubled automaker in order to lead the proposed $4.4 billion employee buyout of UAL, the parent company of United Air Lines...
...Mikhail Gorbachev prepares to embark on his latest plan to save the Soviet economy, he has expressly ruled out the shock therapy administered by Polish leaders last January when they abolished subsidies and price controls. By far the boldest approach to economic reform anywhere in Eastern Europe, Poland's policies have created hard times for many of the country's 40 million citizens. Unemployment, virtually unknown under the Communists, has climbed to 400,000. Rising prices and tight curbs on wages have sliced the purchasing power of some families as much as 40%. For the first time people can remember...
...ever leaves the hospital. But it is unlikely that this infant will go home. "This baby is the dilemma," says Dr. Maureen Edwards, director of newborn services at the hospital. "You've started treatment, and there's no place to stop, and you're not going to save the baby...