Dr. Ward said the single strain was a potential advantage because it would lower the cost and make quality control easier.

Dr. Ward said the finding fits in logically with what is known about the development of the central nervous system.

The key word for both sides, Dr. Ward said, is compromise.

Yet Dr. Ward said he sometimes had to draw the line.

Dr. Ward was also proprietor of the first store, in 1808.

It is like lying down and trying to hold your feet a little way off the floor for a long time, Dr. Ward explained.

New studies, Dr. Ward said, suggest that things could be worse.

Other parents who filed complaints against Dr. Ward said they, too, had been kept from being with their children.

Part of the rise is based on expected growth, Dr. Ward said.

Dr. Ward was a physician with a passion for botany.