Word: aspirins
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...fact, to man's Neanderthal predecessors. Today, arthritis inflames the joints of 10% of the world's population, including one out of seven Americans. There are dozens of helpful drugs on the market, as well as countless quack remedies ranging from copper bracelets to snake venom. Aspirin, however, remains the treatment of choice. The trouble is that in order to suppress inflammation as well as pain, aspirin often must be taken in megadoses-15 to 20 tablets a day. At such levels, it can cause stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market that grows...
Ironically, so does someone like Jonathan Schell, who dismissingly compares SALT to an aspirin administered to a patient with a terminal disease. While Schell's analysis of the potential danger of nuclear war is compelling, his prescription?general and complete disarmament and world government?is far too Utopian. And his thesis that the world is doomed if it does not take his advice is hardly helpful, since the world is almost certainly not going to take his advice...
...quite returned. Some wondered if it ever would. But the talk this spring is once again of hopeful rookies and aging veterans, an endless line streaming in and straggling out. Born hitters who can do it all and hurt you in a lot of ways. Stylish lefthanders who throw aspirin tablets and wear CAN'T MISS tags if they stay out of the hitters' wheelhouses. Joy is back in Mudville...
...intact was lost at midweek when Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, one of the Administration's key budget operatives in Congress, declared his opposition. Said Domenici: "Political leaders do all a disservice by pretending that we can swallow $100 billion-plus deficits as though they were aspirin tablets." Offering his own remedy for the deficit headache, he proposed trimming defense spending by limiting its growth to 5% after inflation, thereby saving $20 to $25 billion over the next three years. His plan also called for freezing the costs of all domestic programs at 1982 levels through...
...some there are cramps. For some there is bleeding. For some there is vomiting and other things, the nurses say as they put kotex and aspirin and pain pills and sleeping pills--as if they would cure the bewilderment--in a bag and you leave...