Word: bloodstreams
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...Republicans blame the Democrats' inflationary policies, which they say have stifled growth in productivity, for the current unemployment. The G.O.P. urges "a bold program of tax rate reductions, spending restraints and regulatory reforms that will inject new life into the economic bloodstream of this country...
...industrial uses were found for it. DMSO, derived as a byproduct in converting trees to paper, is an antifreeze and a versatile solvent for a broad spectrum of chemicals. But scientists were startled to find it also had a remarkable capacity to penetrate skin and tissues and enter the bloodstream; its only apparent side effects were an oysterlike taste in the mouth and a garlicky breath odor...
...respect few limits or boundaries. They continue to proliferate wildly, forming a growing mass or tumor that expands into healthy tissue and competes with normal cells for nutrition. Not content with wreaking local damage, the burgeoning tumor sends out groups of malevolent cells, like amphibious invasion forces, into the bloodstream, which carries them all over the body. Some perish on their mission. But here and there, many of these mobile cells establish beachheads on healthy tissue and begin dividing, forming new tumors. Eventually the marauding cells infiltrate, starve and destroy vital organs, incapacitating and usually bringing death to their unwilling...
When Bush finally emerged from his hotel room to concede in a speech reminiscent of his grinning television commercials--"I really feel good about this country; I really feel good about this campaign"--camera crews, journalists and photographers clogged the hallway like cholesterol clogs the bloodstream...
...television. If the grunts on search-and-destroy in the Central Highlands sometimes kept themselves going with a jolt of John Wayne from The Sands of two Jima, the people at home took their war each night live in their living rooms, mainlined by television directly into the bloodstream. Viet Nam was so intimately recorded that it became almost unendurably real-yet also impossibly remote, 9,000 miles away, a dark hallucination. And along with the war on the tube came the rest of the theater of the '60s: riots, assassinations, the antiwar moratoriums, the Yippies' carmagnoles...