Word: discolor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaches the respiratory tract, swelling the internal lining, the breath shortens and the chest tightens. The skin darkens to a sickly purplish color, the armpits and other cavities turning almost black. Excruciating blisters appear on the neck, chest and thighs, causing patches of skin to fall off. Large lesions discolor the genital area. For some, the blisters and the terror eventually fade, although they may be plagued by side effects like bone-marrow or gastrointestinal problems for years to come. Others perish quickly, the silenced victims of a silent killer...
...teeth. Johnson & Johnson's orthodontic division last week unveiled a new kind of bracket, the part of braces that affixes to the teeth. Called Starfire brackets, they are made of transparent, stain-proof sapphire. They may become an attractive alternative to clear brackets made of plastic, which tend to discolor. Traditional metallic braces, though still widely used, give some self-conscious patients the feeling that they resemble James Bond's cinematic nemesis Jaws...
...Ciba-Geigy, fourth in sales in the indus try, is accused in the report of dumping 30th clioquinol and aminopyrine. The West German giant Hoechst and E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc., of Princeton, N.J., are charged with selling tetracycline in Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth control pills sold in Singapore and Malaysia; Parke-Davis and Dow Chemical, for not publicizing the perils of chloramphenicol in Asian drug manuals...