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...Cuff. The audience belongs to him, heart, brain and pocketbook. But Jackson's speech-as usual, delivered off the cuff-is for the most part flat and dull. He dwells on the energy crisis, pushing out statistics like a bookkeeper. He lectures, informs, but does not inspire until the last part of the speech, when he talks of international human rights. "I want to see a clear movement of people and ideas across international boundaries," he says, "and, may I say, not just machinery and wheat...
...always better when you win more than you lose," said the Bridgewater coach. Matthews, sitting at a long banquet table, fiddled aimlessly with his cuff-links...
...device used to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer (from the Greek, meaning pulse measurement); it measures the air pressure needed to raise a column of mercury. To use it, the doctor pumps air into a cloth cuff wound tightly round the patient's arm. As the cuff expands, the column of mercury rises in response to the increasing air pressure. That pressure also causes the cuff to press against the brachial artery, stopping the flow of blood. The doctor, his stethoscope pressed against the patient's forearm, knows that the flow has ceased when...
...diastolic, or lower reading, the doctor lets more air out of the cuff and continues to listen; the pulse momentarily gets louder and then fades. The level at which the sound of the pulse disappears is the diastolic, or the pressure in the circulatory system when the heart is relaxing and refilling...
...distinct campaign activities, not counting sleeping, eating and breathing. He was unquenchable, inexhaustible, irrepressible, each new act kindling more adrenaline. He was almost Lyndon B. Johnson. There were rallies, conferences, television appearances. He foxtrotted at the Urban League dance, he went to a basketball game. He sold his cuff links for charity, hiked a football through the presidential legs and ended that 18-hour day at a party for his official photographer in Portland...