Word: filteration
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...they were asked to smoke so that Levine could measure any changes. The physician found no significant change in platelet activity after the volunteers smoked cigarettes made of lettuce leaves, which contain no nicotine, or when they dragged on unlit cigarettes. But only five minutes after smoking a standard filter cigarette, all showed an increased tendency to form clots...
...military government in Brazil enforces its authoritarian power with clear-cut repression. In 1968, the military established rule by decree, shutting down Congress, abolishing political rights including habeas corpus for political prisoners, and bypassing the courts. Reports of the torture of prisoners continue to filter...
...charges of unprofessional conduct. "I have already begged my husband," she insists, "not to tell me if he has anything that is really secret and important. Then, if there's a leak, no one can suspect me." When the news of a possible German currency revaluation did filter out of Luxembourg in 1969, suspicion was about to center on her until her husband admitted that he was the culprit. He had revealed the news to one of his wife's colleagues...
Williams set out to develop a more reliable way of simulating the liver's filtering ability in 1966, when he founded the liver research unit at King's College with one assistant. Backed by private and government grants-and aided by a staff that has now expanded to 44 -he devised a series of 2-ft.-high glass columns through which the patient's blood is detoured. The columns are filled with charcoal granules, which filter water-soluble impurities from the blood; additional columns filled with resins are being tested to remove less soluble protein-bound compounds...
Robert C. Wood, president of the University of Massachusetts and former secretary of Housing and Urban Development, sharply criticized Nixon housing programs. "The current program subsidizers middle-class families and does not filter down to the poor," he said...