Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board sees it, the fundamental inflationary pressure on the economy lately has come from spending by business. The board has therefore aimed its credit pinch at the chief source of corporate loans: the commercial banks...
...nicknamed Red Beard, prevents the irate young man from quitting altogether. "This place is terrible," a fellow intern tells the young man. "The patients are all slum people; they're full of fleas - they even smell bad. Being here makes you wonder why you ever wanted to be come a doctor." It is through Red Beard (Toshiro Mifune) that the young doctor learns not only why but what, in a full metaphorical sense, being a doctor of medicine really means...
...exact mechanism by which methadone works is not known, but it involves tolerance and cross-tolerance, or blockade. The patients who take carefully stepped-up doses of methadone be come tolerant in the sense that they observe no outward effect from it. Presumably because methadone works on the same brain centers as heroin, it induces a cross-tolerance to heroin and blocks its effects. A methadone patient can be challenged with a massive mainline fix and show no response-except enormous relief at the knowledge that now he can take it or leave it alone. He can watch...
...seems that the sooner you got whatever it was, the worse it was," he added. More than thirty freshmen had come to the Infirmary with symptoms of the "bug," he added, "but we can't be sure how many people had it and didn't come...
PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S farewell State of the Union address was very much the kind of performance that we've come to expect from him. The address was full of the old familiar LBJisms--his assurances that peace is closer than ever, his juggled financial statistics, his flagwaving reference to our troops in Asia, his understandable concern over his own place in history...