Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cool the burns fast by removing clothing if it is loose, and immersing them in cold water (tap water, ice water, milk, soft drinks, or whatever is handy). For large burns, avoid excess chilling by using tap water without...
...surgery begins, the cellular engine may have already shrunk from starvation (for example, that caused by cancer of the gullet or stomach), from infection, or from the storage of excess water, as in the edema that goes with congestive heart failure. The faltering engine gradually loses its power to deliver blood-borne nutrients to the muscles. Then the most vulnerable points, said Dr. Moore, are in the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs. And the effects are most severe on breathing and coughing. The cause of death in surgical patients, he said, is seldom found in the heart, brain...
...Prado is relatively secure today because of a fortunate stroke of politics; he named Beltrán as his Premier. Himself a conservative with the blood of conquistadores in his veins, Beltran stopped the money presses. He collected neglected taxes, trimmed excess bureaucracy, encouraged exports, curbed imports. The sol steadied, the balance of trade shifted to favorable, debts were paid. Progress is still slow, but enough projects for housing, road building and agrarian reform are taking shape to give Peruvians hope-and to warrant businesslike consideration of a Prado request last week for $29.6 million in emergency loans from Kennedy...
...cheer about in the fact that housing starts declined 2% in August. And though manufacturers' sales of consumer durables rose 1%, no fat backlog of unfilled orders was developing. One reason seemed to be that producers were delivering promptly because they still had plenty of unused plant. Excess capacity and intense competition served also as an inflationary brake, as was demonstrated last week when Aluminum Co. of America felt obliged to cut its basic ingot prices from 26? to 24? per Ib. With so much overcapacity, manufacturers as yet felt no compulsion to expand vigorously, consequently were borrowing...
...market) that the domestic industry will double in size by 1970. For the shorter range future, Harvey Aluminum's energetic Chairman Lawrence A. Harvey pointed to the industry's current 82% operating rate and said: "Any modest upturn in the economy will dry up the so-called excess capacity. The aluminum companies are not tearing down any plants-are they? In fact, everyone is building up a little something extra right...