Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s. The drugs block nerve impulses to special sites (beta receptors) in body tissues. They reduce the rate at which the heart beats and the force of its contractions, thus decreasing its work load. More than a dozen beta blockers are in use worldwide, primarily for treatment of severe chest pain (angina), high blood pressure and arrhythmias...
...officer. The officer said he approached the youth, who was standing near a bicycle with a chain in his hand and asked him to identify himself. The youth began to walk away with the bicycle, and when the officer repeated his question, the youth allegedly struck him in the chest with the chain...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
...process. A section of the rectus abdominis, one of the two large muscles that run vertically from the ribs to the pelvis, is removed, along with a surrounding island of skin and fat. The large artery supplying blood to the region is left intact. The skin of the chest is sliced free of its underlying tissue, and the entire mass is moved into the cavity left when the breast was removed. Then the new breast is shaped and sutured into place. Finally the abdominal skin is stretched and tightened in the same procedure that is commonly used in cosmetic operations...
...Cable would like to help expand your universe," said the advertising brochure, and for once chest thumping seemed in order. The occasion was last week's entry by CBS, one of the giants of network television, into the rapidly expanding cable field. In tone and focus, its new CBS-C service is a bold gamble of more than $10 million on a market that has often proved treacherous for TV: cul ture and fine arts. In the first seven days, viewers were almost buried under good shows, or, at the very least, good intentions. Shakespeare, Beethoven and Napoleon were...