Word: aspirins
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Countertrade has been practiced for centuries. The Indians sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch for some beads, cloth and trinkets, and during World War II Adolf Hitler sent Yugoslavia boxcars of aspirin in return for that country's copper. Low commodity prices and a world credit crunch are causing the back-to-barter boom. In just eight years, countertrade in all its forms has grown from an estimated 2% of world commerce to roughly 33%, according to Business Trend Analysts, a New York consulting firm...
...shaped table, Brazil, is finished in sea green, pink and yellow lacquer. It could serve as an animated cartoon prop, the perfect background for Tom and Jerry. Memphis Founder Ettore Sottsass Jr. has gone further. His Park Lane'coffee table is strictly from Oz: a giant black marble aspirin resting on delicate emerald green feet...
...bacterial elements accompany the virus, the usual prescription of aspirin and fluids is supplemented by antibiotics, Wacker said...
...some 31 million Americans who suffer from arthritis, the drug Oraflex promised blessed relief when it was introduced in May 1982. A single dose of the remedy had the painkilling power of a dozen or more aspirin tablets. But Oraflex has turned into a bitter disappointment. More than 135 users in the U.S. and Europe have died. Last week a federal jury in Georgia settled the first of some 100 lawsuits against Oraflex's manufacturer, Eli Lilly & Co. of Indianapolis (1982 sales: $2.9 billion...
...twelve weeks, the rate of both heart attack and mortality was 51 % lower among aspirin users than among the group taking placebos. Though aspirin is thought to interfere with potentially dangerous clotting of blood, earlier tests showed it to be of limited help to patients who have already had a heart attack. The new data, however, clearly demonstrate that small doses are very effective in preventing heart attacks in people who have had the warning signs of unstable angina...