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...stopping the flow of blood. The doctor, his stethoscope pressed against the patient's forearm, knows that the flow has ceased when he can no longer hear the heartbeat. At that point, he slowly releases the air from the cuff. As pressure drops, the mercury column begins to descend; the cuff loosens, and blood begins to flow through the arm again. The doctor notes the level of the mercury column when he can once more hear the heartbeat. This reading is the systolic measurement. It is the higher of the two figures used in the measurement of blood pressure...
...descend, With well-taught feet: now shape...
...lots more Pulitzers descend on Bailyn...
Next the miners descend in an elevator to the mine, far below the surface. There they file into a tiny rail car for the ride to the mine face, the wall of solid coal at the end of the tunnel where the coal is actually extracted. During the four-mile journey, the beams from the lamps on the miners' hats bore through the darkness, picking up eerie, abandoned passageways, diggings of another day. The foreman carries a small naphtha lamp; if the lamp's flame flares up, it indicates the presence of flammable methane gas and the threat...
Everywhere, jobs are harder and harder to come by. "When something opens up, we all descend like locusts on the company that's hiring," says Bostonian Judy Knight, who lost her job as a staff producer with Atlantic Records last December. "The company ends up getting the pick of the best." When 100 jobs opened recently for firemen in Los Angeles, 1,000 applicants showed...