Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dose of Escapism. In somewhat more veiled fashion, former Prime Minister Edward Heath said much the same thing as Macmillan at the Tories' conference in Brighton earlier this month. Another former Tory minister, Lord Hailsham, recently called for nothing less than scrapping the ancient parliamentary system ("an elective dictatorship") and replacing it with an American-style written constitution...
...their own conclusion, Medved and Wallechinsky settle for a large dose of the groups' inability to meet their own expectations. "Teenagers today," the Time article concluded," do not think of themselves as 'knights in shining chinos' riding forth on rockets to save the universe. But even the coolest of them know that their careers could be almost that fantastic." The authors of What Really Happened respond...
...Lethal Dose. Chekhov's dictum about never showing a gun in the first act unless it is used in the third applies to poisoned pills as well. Jakub's lethal dose leads to a death that cries out to be interpreted as either an accidental murder or a murderous accident. Playing existential detective, Kundera shows how all the major characters are implicated. But despite some amusing farcical turns, the verdict is heavily weighted toward a formulation that amounts to a facile existential copout: we are all murderers...
Ostentatious Show. So the policy advisers bought tickets on commercial flights to Atlanta (economy class) and, in an additional dose of Carter humility, boarded a chartered bus for the three-hour, 135-mile trip to the house owned by Carter's mother, Miss Lillian. On the way, they lunched on cold fried chicken; like everything except the plane tickets, the lunch was paid for by the Carter campaign committee, which was apparently making an ostentatious show of frugality. First out of the bus was former Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Warnke, his rumpled seersucker jacket slung over his shoulder...
...noted studies showing increased breast-cancer rates among women exposed to higher radiation levels-those subjected to X rays in treatment of tuberculosis, patients receiving radiotherapy for acute breast infection, and survivors of A-blasts in Japan. Extrapolating from these data, he concluded that "there is no absolutely safe dose" for X rays and urged prompt discontinuation of mammography in routine screening of women under...