Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formal debate on health-care reform dragged on, the Senate finally did something and voted on a number of minor amendments to majority leader George Mitchell's bill. Meanwhile, a fluid "mainstream" coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans endured long negotiations to craft an alternative proposal that, while somewhat less inclusive, is thought by many to represent the Senate's best shot at passing a bill. The mainstream plan would cover about 92% of the population, would cut out many of the regulations in the Mitchell plan, and aims to lower the federal deficit. But Republicans, led by minority leader...
Warren Haynes' thick sound is well complemented by his authoritative attack and tough blues riffs, not to mention his tasteful slide guitar playing. While Haynes' bluesy style earns a visceral appeal, Dickie Betts' fluid meanderings find a more melodic one. The band's new single (written by Betts) "Where It all Began" gave an excellent demonstration of Betts' ability to find melodic grooves while improvising...
Cholera is proving more efficient than carbines. It kills in hours, draining the body of fluid so fast that nurses without equipment for transfusions cannot rehydrate victims in time. Along the roadways and in the camps it has become hard to tell the sleeping from the dead until the bodies swell up in the tropical sun. Refugees wrap their faces in scarves and rags and surgical masks, hoping to filter the stench from the rotting bodies everywhere...
...federal guidelines recommend less aggressive early treatment for children with inner-ear fluid buildup, as the condition often clears up without any treatment...
...turned out to be a more complex problem. A blocked vessel was keeping blood from flowing from the heart to the lungs, and the fluid was backing up into the heart. Angela lost consciousness. Doctors managed to bring her back two or three times, but at 1 a.m., in the room where she had lived for 10 months and had just cut her first tooth, she died...