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...most common are drugs involving antihistamines, which block or depress the action of histamine...
...industry, a staunch Clinton ally, makes out very nicely. A proposal to limit the mortgage-interest deduction for upper-income taxpayers "received serious consideration" until late last week, Bentsen said. But it eventually "fell out" of Clinton's package because a limit even on mortgages above $300,000 might depress expensive housing markets. "What about New York, where so many of the mortgages are more than $300,000?" Bentsen asked. "What about California?" Clinton's proposal also restores incentives for commercial real estate developers. When asked last week just what the real estate industry would be "sacrificing," a top official...
Opposition will be bitter. Truckers and other big fuel users are claiming that energy taxes depress the economy and wipe out jobs. They have been joined by the very liberal Citizens for Tax Justice, which complains that energy taxes would hurt the poor and middle class. The Administration would probably try to give back some of the money to the poor in the form of a higher earned- income tax credit or some similar device. The Administration's essential argument is that it needs the money, and this is one way to raise it that also promotes energy conservation...
...amazing how funny House of Blue Leaves is, considering its four deaths, a schizophrenic wife, the Vietnam War, a husband who wants to run off to pursue delusions of grandeur. None of this bitter material prevents the funny parts from being really funny. Nor does it seem to depress the audience. As Bunny says, "I haven't seen so many people so excited since the premiere of Cleopatra. It's that...
Many physicians now concede that patients have been undermedicated for decades, suffering needlessly. One reason was concern that big doses of opiates could depress respiration, but a large part stemmed from an exaggerated fear that patients would become addicted. This fear, which continues to hold sway over American medicine, is basically unwarranted. A landmark study, published in 1982, followed almost 12,000 Boston hospital patients who had been given narcotic pain-killers. After eliminating those with a history of addiction, researchers found that only four became addicted to the drugs they received as patients. "You don't see cancer patients...