Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your choice of King Faisal as Man of the Year was indeed an excess of poor judgment. If the world (and particularly the press) should have learned anything about the Arab mentality, it is that publicity and recognition only encourage the Arabs' violence and blackmail...
...OBESITY. Excess weight, whether it is only a few extra pounds or many, may bring an increase in blood pressure. It takes a mile of capillaries to nourish each extra pound of fatty tissue. With each extra pound, there is a corresponding increase in blood volume. This means that the heart must work harder to pump more blood through a more extensive circulatory system...
Usually renin production ceases when blood pressure reaches the proper level. In this case, the cutoff mechanism had failed. The man's renin was triggering the production of excess aldosterone, which in turn was increasing the body's tendency to retain salt. The process caused fatally high blood pressure...
...Stouffer Prize in 1969, explained the hormonal controls of blood pressure for the first time. They also permitted the development of a renin profile-a computer-aided analysis of the patient's hormonal output. There are patients with low renin levels who nonetheless have high blood pressure; excess of fluid is probably at the root of their problem. Diuretics counteract this tendency to store salt and fluids, thus lowering the blood pressure. Those with high renin levels can be best helped with renin inhibitors that will slow or even shut off production of the hormone. "Until we figured...
...costs around the country through the current equalization program. In effect, Western refineries with easy access to "old" domestic oil, selling at a controlled price of $5.25 per bbl., would subsidize Eastern refineries that are dependent on uncontrolled oil from foreign sources or "new" domestic oil-production in excess of a 1972 base period that is allowed to sell at the world price. Through this system, the tariff would translate mainly into a nationwide rise in gas prices of 3? or 4? per gal. at the pump...