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...first time. They also permitted the development of a renin profile-a computer-aided analysis of the patient's hormonal output. There are patients with low renin levels who nonetheless have high blood pressure; excess of fluid is probably at the root of their problem. Diuretics counteract this tendency to store salt and fluids, thus lowering the blood pressure. Those with high renin levels can be best helped with renin inhibitors that will slow or even shut off production of the hormone. "Until we figured out just what renin did," says Laragh, "therapy was conducted...
...program department planned a series often-minute excerpts and summaries from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the nightmare account of Soviet repression, to counteract Moscow's propaganda against the book. USIA ordered the project canceled...
...causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons try to counteract the effects of the anticoagulants to restore the patient's clotting factors...
...depending upon the degree to which the student body is expendable to the state. The administration of Southern University consistently lied to black students in responding to demands for more black control of college programs; when they ran out of lies, they used guns to counteract increasing student unity. The administration of Harvard University has lied to its black students, also, as the recent betrayal of agreements for student and Afro-American Studies Department input into the DuBois Institute by the administration and its black lackeys illustrates, and it will take whatever other action it deems necessary to "keep...
...Guinea, Jamaica and Yugoslavia, recently formed the International Bauxite Association to prop up prices for that ore, which is used to make aluminum. Most commodity producers, however, lack the religious, ethnic and cultural unity of the Arab oil producers, and it remains to be seen whether their efforts can counteract the law of supply and demand, which is now pushing prices down...