Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January of 1979, as the century's worst blizzard howled outside, George and Jeanine Loulousis of Mokena, Ill., hovered anxiously over the bed of their three-month-old son Jonathan, watching his sudden and unexplained fever rise steadily higher. Three years later, Jonathan was dead of a rare and incurable form of colitis, leaving his emotionally shattered parents to face an equally catastrophic economic woe: a staggering $400,000 in medical bills incurred in the futile fight to save their...
...against skyrocketing health-care costs unless the Congress and the Administration work together to give the problem the priority it deserves. So far, that has not happened, and the longer the subject is postponed, the worse it seems destined to get. The fact is that as long as the fever of rising costs burns in the business of medical science, the economy can never be totally cured of inflation. -By John Greenwald. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago and Jeanne Saddler/Washington
...drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken on the street," says Dr. Robert Temple of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
...hangover from past inflation is also keeping many people away from shopping. Although consumer prices have been increasing at an annual rate of less than 2% since the beginning of the year, many people still do not believe that the inflationary fever that raged during much of the 1970s has subsided. Says Kay Cooper, a receptionist in a Manhattan optometrist's office: "I don't see inflation coming down at all. It still costs a fortune just to use the subway and the bus." Adds New York Businessman Alfred Sandberg: "You feel that...
...practice a "blatant double standard" in selling products to poorer nations. Side-effect warnings that are disclosed in drug reference books in industrialized nations are sometimes left out of guides used in underdeveloped lands. Products that are outlawed or severely restricted in the Western world-clioquinol and aminopyrine, a fever and pain remedy linked to a serious blood ailment-are dumped in the unregulated markets of Southeast Asia. Many of these products are elaborately promoted. Clioquinol was touted on Indonesian television until the government banned all TV commercials last year. Other products, including vitamins and "tonics," are promoted as cures...