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...really want to go to school with a bunch of sluts?” as Amy chooses whether to go to a school for pregnant girls. The awkward references to once-popular culture are even better: Ben advises his friends that “Dex isn’t sudoku,” and Graces’ dad angrily advises his daughter’s ex-boyfriend Jack, “Why don’t you buy a vowel and go home?” (I have yet to figure out what this means.) The writers and actors...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TV Drama "Secret Life" a Bundle of Joy, Stupidity | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

Kerry's lackluster years in the senate show that he would be the worst kind of President--drab, passive, waffling and doing whatever his liberal Democratic friends in Congress tell him to do. DEX NILSSON Huntsville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 2004 | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...comes to 14.5 (8.3% unemployment + 6.2% inflation). That represents a drop from 1974's punishing year-end in dex of 16.6, but still marks a stark in crease from 1960, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Measuring Misery | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

Another threat to the wallet is the galloping increase in inflation caused by the fuel crisis. The wholesale price in dex in November shot up at an annual rate of 21.6%, led by a 19.3% jump in fuel prices. The Cost of Living Council nevertheless decided last week to per mit an extra boost of 20 a gallon in wholesale prices of heating oil that will shortly raise homeowners' monthly bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMPACT: The Fuel Crisis Begins to Hurt | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Multiple-drug remedies include a cough suppressant like codeine or dex-tromethorplran, which may be useful if a doctor prescribes the right amount (about 20 milligrams for adults, five to 15 for children). But most drugstore cough remedies lack sufficient amounts. Worse, their other ingredients can interact with additional drugs the buyer may be taking-for example, tranquilizers, antidepressants or drugs for high blood pressure. This can cause a "blood-pressure crisis." Moreover, some cough elixirs contain from 43% to 50% ethyl alcohol, the equivalent of 100-proof whisky. Some teen-agers are buying such brands as popular "kick inducers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cough-Remedy Caution | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

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