Word: barneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also would probably destroy more jobs than it would create. The House passed the bill, 215 to 188, but some members claimed it was mainly a symbolic action. "It wouldn't have passed here if people thought it would pass in the Senate," said Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank. The Senate, to its credit, defeated the measure by letting it die in committee...
...Barney Clark's heart was the least of his worries last week, and that was a welcome change. The air-powered artificial heart permanently implanted in place of his own failing organ continued to work perfectly, just as it had from the time of the landmark operation in Salt Lake City on Dec. 1. The plastic pump clicked steadily at an unvarying 90 beats a minute as Clark made remarkable initial progress. And it pulsed without pause as Clark suffered, and survived, the first major setback in his recovery. The heart's unflagging performance led Dr. Chase Peterson...
...matters of the heart fill the news these weeks, both firsts and quickly related. In Utah, Dr. Barney Clark was fitted for an artificial heart, and in Texas, the heart of Charles Brooks Jr. was stopped by doses of sodium thiopental, pavulon and potassium chloride administered by the department of corrections. One can muse on the irony of medical inventiveness being used for two antipodal purposes, but irony is not the mood with which the public is left. For Clark one feels apprehension, appreciation and a passing sense of social advancement. For Brooks one feels a vast emptiness and impotence...
...matter how long he survives, life will not be easy for Barney Clark. He is permanently tethered to 375 Ibs. of equipment that includes two compressors, a back-up compressor, a three-hour supply of pressurized air to operate the heart in case of a power failure, a drier to dehumidify the air, and mechanisms that control the air pressure and heart rate. All of this gear can be placed on what his doctors call a "shopping cart," which must always be within six feet of the patient, the length of the power lines that emerge from just below Clark...