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...inhaled, the gas may cause only slight pain and coughing at first; but later, as it works its way into the lung tissue, it can lead to burnlike damage called pulmonary edema, filling the lungs with fluid. During their night aboard the carrier, the astronauts experienced considerable discomfort from coughing and were given cortisone in order to reduce lung inflammation. Next day when the carrier docked at Pearl Harbor, the three were driven to Honolulu's Tripler Army Medical Center. Waving and smiling as they walked into the hospital, the astronauts asked officials to reassure their wives back...
...added in April 1977 if gas consumption climbs 3% or more above the 1973 level. The committee is still struggling to find agreement on import-quota levels, a windfall-profits tax for the oil industry and a levy on industrial petroleum use. Last week, to Ullman's discomfort, the committee voted down several proposals to place stiff taxes on the sale of gas-guzzling cars. The House commerce subcommittee has been even more bogged down. Among other things, it has yet to decide how, or even whether to approve a plan that would decontrol the price...
Parents also justifiably fear the effect of busing on their children's education and the harm, discomfort or inconvenience it may cause. They also disapprove of their children being used like laboratory equipment in vague sociological experiments. They send their children to school for an education and don't like to see them used for anything else. After all, to a parent, his child is not easily replaceable like a broken test tube...
...originally been skeptical about becoming a student here because I feared that too often my name and the proximity of my father would be a source of discomfort or embarrasment. The fear was exaggerated. Harvard is big enough and diverse enough so that the problem is outweighed by the benefits. But occasionally I feel as must the underworld henchman who "knows too much." Friends and family will guard their conversation because I have friends "on the other side." I'm getting tired of being sworn to secrecy...
...discussions of Marxist-Leninist dialectical materialism. At difficult stages during the operation itself, the surgical team capitalizes on the general effects of distraction: "A great deal of encouraging talk streams on almost continuously." Nevertheless, Wall saw several operations during which the patient showed "varying signs of misery." But the discomfort was "borne with a most admirable fortitude which would be rare in a Western patient." Another significant limitation is that acupuncture is not employed in operations on children under ten. Reason: they...