Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surrendered, he remained for he "had a purpose in life... to die. Die fighting for black people's freedom." A fate he viewed as "better than with prayers and pleas/ in the clutch of some disease/ wasting slowly by degrees. / Better than of heart attack/ Or some dose of drug I lack/ Let me die by being black." The shoot-out continued until one of the police officers tried to coax the re-remaining Panther to surrender. But he refused, ending his statement with, "We came in chains and now your choice must be/ To either blow...
...severe impact accidents." Vernon's wastes would be taken to the Nuclear Fuel Services facility in West Valley, New York. This plant, run by the Getty oil interests, is notorious for its tendency to continue sending employees into high radiation areas until they have received the maximum legal dose. Of 80 employees on strike in late 1969, 70 had received more than the maximum permissible dose by December 1 when the strike began...
...hospital for various reasons. Patient one is a construction worker who is rushed into the emergency ward after an accident. His heart has stopped and the medical teams try bravely to save his life, but fail. Following a dramatic account of the medical effort, Crichton offers a heavy dose of "what this all means" in the context of a changing hospital system. "What this all means" unfortunately has little to do with modern health care and has even less that is not so obvious as to be trivial...
...Sammy," she said. Love has its limits, and with that comment Myrna had just passed them. She obviously had to go. But how? One day I snagged the perfect solution-a rusty nail in a kitchen cupboard. Late that night, when Myrna was sleeping off the extra-heavy dose of fortified milk I had prepared for her, I scratched her, ever so gently, on the right instep-I did not want to hurt her. Within the week the toxin took hold...
...colleges. Her philosophy began to take shape twenty years ago, when she participated in one of the first comprehensive studies of the social, emotional and physical results of drugs, and concluded that "there is no single effect for any drug. If you let me choose the person and the dose, I could produce any effect you name with any drug." Since then, she has lobbied astutely behind the scenes to make researchers, government officials and teachers focus on "people, not chemicals...