Word: bleed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last year, he swung open the doors to a House-Senate conference drawling, "I hope it won't give anyone a brain hemmorage to hear a new idea." Well Long has just come up with a new one that's bound to give Americans more than a nose bleed. He has gotten together with Al Ullman--the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee--to propose a value added tax (VAT) which could drastically change the American tax system...
...White House for four more years." The point, said a Carter operative, is to test whether Kennedy has "the stomach to go through the humiliating, deflating experience of fighting for the nomination." Says another Carter aide of Kennedy: "He's going to get clawed. He's going to bleed, and then he's going to start dropping in the polls." Carter, who has already made public claims that he is not a man who panics, recently told a staffer, "Kennedy has no idea what he's in for." If not, the Senator has only to look around him. While campaigning...
...rare, inherited blood disorder affects males primarily, and afflicts some 25,000 Americans. Because most hemophiliacs lack a blood-clotting substance known as factor VIII, they may bleed uncontrollably after slight injuries or from such ordinary events as losing baby teeth. Frequently there is bleeding into joints, leading sometimes to crippling. Today many hemophiliacs are successfully treated with injections of factor VIII, but that is therapy, not a cure. It is also expensive-$6,000 to $26,000 a year. For many couples with a family history of hemophilia, the prospect of raising a child with the disease is more...
...like them apples, how do you like the sound of Vida Blue, Bob Knepper, Ed Halicki and John Montefusco starting? Or Randy Moffitt, John Curtis and Gary Lavelle relieving? It's the best staff anywhere--go bleed some Dodger Blue, Tommy LaSorda...
Hemorrhoids are a swelling of veins in the rectum and anal canal. These vessels can become so distended that they protrude, rupture and bleed. If piles develop near sensitive nerve endings, they can be extremely painful. No one is quite sure just what starts the swelling, but heredity seems to play an important role. Says Dr. Norman Nigro, chief of colon and rectal surgery at Detroit's Wayne State University: "Hemorrhoids run in families. People inherit veins that are apt to become dilated." Habit may also be a factor, including the "bathroom as library" syndrome. Explains Los Angeles Proctologist...