Word: clings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...damage done by its evil twin, low-density lipoprotein (LDL). The latter clogs blood vessels by combining with oxygen to form a substance that sets off alarms in the immune system. White blood cells rush to attack it, and the whole mess forms into sticky globs called plaques that cling to vessel walls like mineral deposits in a water pipe. When these deposits break off and blood clots around them, the flow can shut off entirely, leading to heart attack or stroke...
...student says, "I know this guy on campus who chicks dig and cling to and all that, just because of his tortoise-shell glasses...
...schools themselves, while certainly not resistant to hav-ing money thrown at them, tend to cling tenaciously to the principle of local control. In a poor neighborhood the public school system is often the biggest employer. Teachers, administrators and school-board members desperately want to keep their positions, even if they aren't doing a good job, and quite often there is very little pressure on them to do better...
Ultimately, most University officials cling to the hope that students will snap out of their slacker spells...
...simple knowledge that information of the final portion of Harrington's book arose from candid conversation between doctors and divinity professors, neurologists and national health program directors, causes the reader to cling to every word of the last 40 pages. Some dialogue is amusing--Professor Spiro of Yale speaks of "feeling like a knight, very macho" when treating acute pain--and other comments are slightly disturbing: Professor Fields of California asserts that "part of what we do as physicians is to scare people" to add to placebo effectiveness. Anne Harrington herself contributes to the discussion of the placebo and each...