Word: distressing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quack remedies ranging from copper bracelets to snake venom. Aspirin, however, remains the treatment of choice. The trouble is that in order to suppress inflammation as well as pain, aspirin often must be taken in megadoses-15 to 20 tablets a day. At such levels, it can cause stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market that grows by a million persons a year in the U.S. alone, pharmacologists keep searching for a better drug. Within the past month, two companies claim to have found it: Oraflex (chemical name: benoxaprofen), introduced last week by Eli Lilly...
...relief workers, and countless standers-by who watched with alarm as America's "golden age of individualism" withered under the exigencies of a depressed economy. Her dispatches, collected in this volume, read effortlessly. Loathe to embellish her account of what she saw or heard, her portraits of towns in distress often sing with the openness of a fair appraisal...
...engulfed by a full beard, which he promised his wife he would shave off when he was allowed to resume a normal life. Otherwise, she has been telling friends, he has suffered no ill effects except for occasional insomnia. He keeps busy by reading and, to Danuta's distress, continues to smoke heavily. The lack of activity has given him a bit of a paunch...
...policy of tight money, regardless of the difficulties and hardships that are imposed on a large segment of our population. Volcker's approach can also be called intransigent and obstinate, which are synonymous with fanatic. In the course of history, fanaticism has never resulted in anything other than distress, frustration and misery...
...whole show went down the tubes. Promising a real-live captured guerrilla who would admit that he was Nicaraguan, had trained in Cuba and Ethiopia, and had fought for the rebels in El Salvador, the State Department called a briefing of its own. To the very apparent distress of the organizers this guerrilla refused to do his tricks...