Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about half an hour, only the solution, consisting of sterile salt water used routinely as a medium for drug injections, flowed into Brooks. At about 12:10 a.m., the executioner injected the first of three syringes into the left tube. The dose: two grams of the barbiturate sodium thiopental, about five times the amount given as an anesthetic before surgery...
Brooks died from an overdose of the sodium thiopental, an autopsy revealed, just as prison authorities had intended. But two more syringes were injected as a guarantee of death. The second dose was 100 mg of pancuronium bromide, a synthetic muscle relaxant designed to paralyze Brooks and stop his breathing. The last was enough potassium chloride to stop the heart. When, at 12:16, Brooks was pronounced dead, two-thirds of the potassium chloride remained unused...
...lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the "ethical questions" raised by a doctor's participation in taking Brook's life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more "humane" than giving him a lethal dose of electricity or forcing him to inhale poison...
When Franklin D. Roosevelt finally extended recognition in 1933, he justified the decision partly on the ground that a dozen years of nonrecognition had failed to alter either the internal or the foreign policies of the Soviet Union. Hostility having failed, the U.S. was ready to try a dose of friendship. The new American embassy was to be modeled on Monticello. "I like the idea of planting Thomas Jefferson in Moscow," said F.D.R. The first U.S. Ambassador, William Bullitt, told the President, "Our representatives in the Soviet Union today can have a really immense influence...
Hancock County, deep in the cotton belt, is a lucky exception to a disturbing modernization of an old saw: the rich are getting a richer dose of the new technology, while the poor get left further behind. Computers are starting to appear in schools in large numbers. The total, which more than doubled in the past year, is approaching 130,000, or an average of 1.6 classroom computers for each of the nation's 82,000 public schools. But the number of machines available to each school varies widely. A survey by Market Data Retrieval Inc. found that...