Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think at the superpower level one has to believe and hope that the threat has for various reasons decreased. But I think the situation at the intermediate level requires a great deal of attention. There is an enormous arms flow to the developing world...
...says urologist Irwin Goldstein of Boston University School of Medicine, who recently chaired an international conference on impotence research. But the vast majority of impotent men -- most are above age 55 -- are victims of poor habits or illness. Alcoholism, for example, can deaden nerves. Cigarette smoking can reduce blood flow to the penis by constricting vessels and causing the corpora cavernosa to lose elasticity. Diabetes, atherosclerosis and high blood pressure (and the medications used to treat it) can all have damaging effects...
...copied and sent to numerous relatives and friends of the family. Each of these has some comment to make on the letter that the boy feels was meant only for him. Uncertain how this development occurred, the boy watches passively, unhappy but somehow unable to halt the flow of events...
...death. At times the style grows annnoyingly Salinger-esque, and is peppered with italics and occasional self-conscious introspection: "And I said, `My father passed away last night.' I who of all people know enough to say 'died': yet said `passed away."' But for the most part the flow of free association is effective...
...speed surgical staplers it manufactures. The trainees practice by stapling multiple surgical incisions on anesthetized dogs, after which the animals are destroyed. Hirsch insists there is no substitute for live animals in the training program. "A dead dog doesn't bleed," he says. "You need to have real blood-flow conditions, or you get a false sense of security. A stapler improperly used is a very dangerous device." But Susan Seymour of Friends of Animals charges that using the dogs in the training program is unnecessary. She notes that many surgeons learn stapling and other techniques without practicing on live...