Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crystalline skies prepared abruptly to make instrument landings. In midmorning, motorists inched through the Stygian haze with smarting eyes and headlights ablaze. Skyscrapers were amputated at the midriff. Pedestrians in city streets gasped at the miasmal murk even as newspaper headlines screamed that their next breath might be a dose of poison...
...again. This time they kidnaped 108 residents of Dinh Cu hamlet, just a mile or two from Long Vinh. The peasants there are no more likely than the first group to cozy up to the Viet Cong, but they will be lucky if they escape with only a dose of indoctrination. While Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, a group of Viet Cong ambushed a truck convoy of civilians on a road 135 miles northeast of Saigon. Before they were through, they had killed nine people...
...drug, Du Font's amantadine hydrochloride, is virtually the only medicine effective in preventing viral infections. Trade-named Symmetrel, it has been tested on more than 3,000 human subjects, and has shown remarkable effectiveness in protecting against Asian-A influenza. For an adult the effective dose of amantadine is 200 mg. a day, a tiny fraction of an ounce...
Calming & Relaxing. Awakened just after 5 a.m., the President was soon stretched out on a mobile bed. Into an arm vein, the Mayo Clinic's Dr. Edward P. Didier and an assistant injected a muscle relaxant and a pre-anesthesia dose of a barbiturate to serve both as a mild analgesic and a calming agent...
...raised a reported $70 million. And if the bank wants to raise cash by selling off such assets as MEA, the interested buyers include France, Russia, Kuwait and even Stavros Niarchos. Intra, in short, claims it could open tomorrow if it were allowed to. Despite a heavy dose of press criticism, Yaffi's government is going slow. "We are working hard," says Intra's Salha. "But when the cow is down, the butchers get out their knives. It is difficult going...