Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with VIG. While health authorities are unlikely soon to adopt Kempe's proposal for a near-total halt to mass vaccination, potent agents for reducing its ravages are already available. One is a safer vaccine that Kempe has devised. Before that, or something like it, comes into general use, doctors can still use a VIG gamma globulin extract, vaccinia immune globulin (VIG), which contains antibodies from recently vaccinated blood donors, to protect the very young and those in poor health who have to be vaccinated. The value of VIG is well established; it has been stocked for years...
...Such conducting underlines another of Boulez's crucial attitudes on Debussy: "Far from being a historical dead end, his music contains the sources of a great deal of 20th century music." To the ears of his ; contemporaries, Debussy's novelty lay in his exotic harmonies, in his use of the whole-tone scale, and in his impressionistic handling of instrumental color. Actually, Debussy shattered the concept of melody into pointillist fragments, emphasizing such qualities as rhythm and timbre. In each of his mature compositions he invented the form as he went along, thereby making it inseparable from...
...charged last week that railroading "is the only industry I know of where a company has made toilet maintenance part of its cost-cutting program." In an angry demand for Government action, Nader continued: "The railroads have tried to make toilets so dirty that people just won't use them. That is just part of the total effort to drive passengers away...
...Germans complain, as do many U.S. businessmen, that much of the Japanese competition is unfair. They say that Japanese manufacturers earn high profits selling in a home market that is virtually closed to foreign competition, then use these profits to subsidize cut-price export sales. The Japanese exporters also get more government help. JETRO, a government-financed trade-promotion agency, conducts extensive surveys that the Germans say pinpoint markets vulnerable to Japanese salesmanship. The Japanese reply that the Germans have simply been complacent...
Television viewers will find little alteration in their favorite. Director Bill Melendez and Producer Lee Mendelson (who also worked together on the TV specials) have scrupulously preserved the eternal suburb of the Peanuts parade, largely through the use of children's voices and subtle, understated colors. Once again, Lucy leads her girls' liberation movement; once again Linus and his blanket play variations on a thumb while Snoopy dogs the Red Baron in his dreams...