Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GLAZER, explaining his preferred "formal definition of `minority,'" said: "When you're a minority, you deserve special treatment...
...actions of "policy" taken by the government: the quotas required by affirmative action. But its phrasing also casts the problems facing minorities in a narrow, even paternalistic manner. It says that U.S. society will acknowledge a minority's problems only if they require policy amounting to obvious "special treatment." Just who delivers the treatment remains tantalizingly vague...
...when the Pope boldly dispatched Casaroli, by now Vatican Secretary of State, and seven other Cardinals to Moscow last year to celebrate the Christian millennium. Casaroli managed a 90-minute meeting with Gorbachev and handed him a three-page letter plus a memo from John Paul listing complaints about treatment of Catholics. Gorbachev responded directly to several of the Pope's requests. Last year Lithuania's two leading bishops were returned to head dioceses after a combined 53 years of internal exile, and the cathedral in Vilnius, previously used as an art museum, was restored for worship. This year...
...fear of becoming physically crippled. About 600,000 Americans are afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which is marked by a progressive dying off of the brain cells that control voluntary movement. Victims suffer from the shakes, muscle stiffness and poor balance; eventually, many become totally disabled. Standard treatment for Parkinson's has relied on giving patients levodopa. But the drug, which supplies remaining brain cells with a vital chemical, simply tempers the disease's symptoms without affecting its progress. Even worse, the medication soon becomes ineffective. For that reason, doctors wait as long as possible after the disease is diagnosed...
...drug called deprenyl may represent a turning point in therapy for Parkinson's. Deprenyl's distinction: it actually slows the progress of the illness. In fact, it is the first medication ever to retard a chronic brain disorder. Deprenyl or similar drugs could conceivably lead to advances in the treatment of other neurological diseases, including Alzheimer...