Word: heartbeats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experiments also posed problems. Cernan worked so hard trying to drill holes for the important heat-flow experiment-which had been inadvertently disconnected on the Apollo 16 mission-that his pulse climbed to 150 beats per minute. NASA doctors, monitoring his heartbeat, ordered him to rest. Coming to Cernan's aid, Schmitt took a dramatic spill as he tried to extract a balky core tube from the ground. All of the experiments were finally set up, but it was learned later that a key instrument-the surface gravimeter-had jammed. It was a bitter disappointment to scientists...
...leading indicator, as they are often considered to be, then the U.S. economy is in for a roller coaster ride. After starting from a low of 889 in January, the most widely watched gauge of the market, the Dow Jones industrial average, has thumped along like an excited heartbeat, often surging up or down by 15 or more points in a day. During the first half of the year, the general trend had been up, but now a new pattern is emerging: in each of the last two weeks the Dow has spurted to a 44-month high of slightly...
...problems such as high blood pressure or heart disease, they are started, sometimes for life, on daily oral doses of Antabuse, a drug that causes the body to react violently to alcohol. Those who drink after taking Antabuse usually experience a variety of unpleasant effects: stomach cramps, nausea, rapid heartbeat, sweating and chest pains...
...realization that Spiro Agnew will once again be running for the office that is a heartbeat away from the presidency makes my heart beat with fear...
...reason for the astronauts' unusual diet is cautionary rather than culinary. Two members of Apollo 15's crew went through brief periods of heartbeat irregularities, and NASA doctors suspected the reason. The two men who suffered the problem had lost 15% of their normal potassium. They were also the ones who landed and worked on the moon. Potassium, a body salt that affects the electrical conductivity of the heart, is essential to controlling cardiac rhythm...