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Changing Life-Style. What bothers Russek the most, however, is the dearth of medical treatment preceding a decision to operate. Russek reviewed the medical treatment that had been given to 200 patients admitted to hospitals for surgery to correct uncontrollable angina. Nearly half had been treated with nothing other than nitroglycerin, a drug used to dilate or expand the arteries. In most of these cases, the drug had been used only to help abort an attack of angina-not to modify the conditions that led to the pain. On the other hand there had been insufficient effort to deal with...
...time college sports crowding the calendar, what is Florida's biggest spectator sport? Answer: Dog racing. The turnstiles spin merrily year-round at one or more of the state's 17 tracks (there are only 23 others in the rest of the U.S.). Despite the dearth of glamour and the shortage of champions that stand out from the pack, huge numbers of gamblers want to wager on the greyhounds that futilely chase an ersatz rabbit around an oval of either five-sixteenths or three-eighths of a mile...
Duesenbury said that the dearth of applicants was due to "the extremely scarce number of black Ph. D.s. in economics...
Harvard faces problems other than a dearth of opponents. Connecticut has declared Red Top unsafe for occupancy until it meets certain fire and safety regulations...
...fuel shortage may seriously cripple the ski industry this winter, but anyone who has entertained the thought of investing in ski equipment for Christmas should not be swayed by this bleak prospect. Even if the dearth of fuel closes your favorite resort or prevents you from getting to the slopes very often this season, you would do well to check out the Boston ski shops just the same...