Word: elys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Eli Lilly & Co. introduced Oraflex last May, the new anti-inflammatory drug was hailed as a breakthrough for the 30 million Americans who suffer from arthritis. Oraflex (chemical name: benoxaprofen) seemed to be less irritating to the stomach than aspirin, the staple treatment for arthritis victims. The drug produced side effects, notably an increased sensitivity of the skin and nails to the sun, but these seemed minor compared with the benefits...
...Sidon. It is hard to tell ancient ruins from modern ruins. The historian, Eli, does not mind seeing damaged stones: "Children, yes." Dan, an artist in civilian life, says that he could never paint any of this. His hair is totally gray, but he looks younger than Eli. He rarely speaks. In the dust beside a crushed house, a 1-mil coin marked PALESTINE and dated 1942 is found. When it was used as currency, the whole world was at war. One wonders who preserved the coin in Sidon...
Poverty is a longstanding social problem that hits American women with particular force. "Female heads of households are the disproportionate group of people in poverty," says Columbia University Economist Eli Ginzberg. "The feminization of poverty" is Sociologist Diana Pearce's blunt phrase for it. A Census Bureau report covering 1980 just goes by the numbers: "About one-half of all families below the poverty level in 1980 were maintained by women with no husband present. The poverty rate for such families was 32.7%, compared with 6.2% for married-couple families, and 11% for families with a male householder, no wife...
...fellows--who have all had at least three years of professional experience--are reporters and editors Eric Best. Daniel Brewster, Huntly Collins, Callie Crossley, Gilbert Gaul, Guy Gugliotta, Sonja Hillgren, David Himmelstein, Karl Idsvoog, William Marimow, Charles Sherman, and photographer Eli Reed...
...stomach distress, ulcers and hemorrhaging. And so, spurred by a market that grows by a million persons a year in the U.S. alone, pharmacologists keep searching for a better drug. Within the past month, two companies claim to have found it: Oraflex (chemical name: benoxaprofen), introduced last week by Eli Lilly & Co., and Feldene (piroxicam), unveiled several weeks ago by Pfizer Inc. Both drugs have been successfully marketed abroad...