Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chorused, "We feel as happy as you do." Not to be outdone by the military, workers at the Harbin locomotive and rolling stock plant overfulfilled their quotas five to twelve hours ahead of schedule at the news. In a Canton hospital, a navy hero awoke from anesthesia after a brain operation to proclaim: "This joyful news is most inspiring. It is a great happiness to us all that Chairman Mao is so healthy...
...There was a large laceration of his scalp and injury to his brain," reported Surgeon James C. Drye of Louisville. "His right lung was torn and there was a fair amount of blood in his chest. His spleen was ruptured and bleeding. There were about three quarts of blood in his abdomen. His left leg was almost amputated. His pelvis was fractured. He was not hit by an artillery shell in Viet Nam, as one might think from the extent of his injuries. He was wounded while riding a motorbike on the streets of our community...
...mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital nurses delayed Christopher's birth by pressing a towel against his head for twelve minutes-thus allowing the tardy doctor to arrive and collect his fee. As a result, the child allegedly suffered loss of oxygen to the brain. He will never be able to walk or talk or learn...
...plaintiff cannot win on mere possibilities. Nor can he rely on common-sense assumptions in situations where only experts are competent to judge causation. In the Deutsch case, for example, the jury was not permitted to assume that brain damage resulted from the repressed birth, and medical testimony was essential. All this makes the plaintiff's burden of proof exceedingly hard to carry when the effect appears long after the cause-for example, in radiation sickness or in lung cancer allegedly caused by cigarettes. Things get really complex when there may be two or more possibly equal causes. Example...
...biggest customer, Canada buys 25% of American exports; it sells the U.S. 70% of its exports. Canada might export even more, but many of its tariff-protected industries remain inefficient by U.S. standards, pay their employees less than similar U.S. workmen earn, and suffer a worrisome brain drain to the south...