Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point last week, the value of the pound sterling dropped to $2.7866, lowest since July's crisis, when devaluation seemed inevitable. Also last week, the ailing pound required another dose of credit. Yet despite such news, prospects for the pound were actually beginning to look...
Named the Valsalva maneuver, after the 17th century Italian anatomist who described it, the trick is the same used by air travelers and skin divers to clear their ears on descent. It also has much the same result as a dose of nitroglycerin or amyl nitrite. Both drugs are rapid dilators of the coronary arteries, and thus quickly increase blood flow within the oxygen-deprived heart muscle; the technique of blowing hard against resistance may work similarly, but, according to the Journal authors, the mechanism is not clear. The Valsalva maneuver should only be used in emergencies...
...Minister George Brown, 51, the No. 2 man in the Labor Party, changed places with Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart, 59. Brown, a devout believer in economic expansion, had tried to resign four weeks ago when Wilson made the decision that the pound could only be saved by a drastic dose of deflation. Wilson talked him into staying on until the bill was assured of passage. Then Wilson rewarded Brown with the job he had asked for when Labor came to power two years ago: the Foreign Office...
...whose illnesses had lasted from three weeks to 50 years (average: ten years). Many had already had operations of various kinds. No fewer than 41 patients enjoyed relief of pain within a few hours, and many got along on three or four tablets a day. Others needed increased doses. In all, 73 patients benefited greatly from carbamazepine alone; four more improved when a modest dose of Dilantin was added...
Student protest was far from the only topic on commencement speakers' minds, and for every dose of Nytol administered by a dull orator, someone else delivered No Doz in the form of a fresh phrase or a sprightly idea. Some of the best...