Word: dose
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With two salaries, two egos and two sets of job demands, married couples today require mobility, flexibility and a dose of originality...
Kimber said Gilette currently uses both the draize eye-irritancy test and the lethal-dose toxicity test in their laboratories, both of which were developed in the first half of the century. The draize test, involves immobilizing rabbits and dropping caustic substances into their eyes. In the lethal-dose toxicity test, poisonous substances are sprayed into the animals' faces...
...HARD 2. No carols or eggnog for Bruce Willis. If it's Christmas, he must be saving the world from terrorists. In Die Hard he outmuscled the bad guys in an L.A. high-rise. This time he sweats heroically in a hijacked airport. DH2 serves up another dose of slick thrills and explosive...
...luck) into a catatonic state, which is only the beginning of the wife's comeuppance. In Buried Alive (USA) another scheming housewife (Jennifer Jason Leigh) conspires with her doctor lover to bump off her husband with poison. Again the plan goes awry: she gives him too small a dose, and the authorities only think he's dead. What follows is Poe- etic justice...
...arthritis, high blood pressure, heart failure and other side effects. Although none of the men in the Wisconsin study had these problems, long-term use of HGH might increase the risk. Other questions that remain to be answered include the age at which treatment should begin, what the optimal dose is, whether the changes will disappear if the therapy is discontinued and whether it is effective in older women. The high cost of HGH -- about $14,000 for a year's supply -- is a severe drawback...