Word: interruptive
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...forcing the blood vessels to expand to several times their normal size. This cycle of contraction and expansion results in the headache's characteristic throbbing pain. In 1993 Glaxo introduced a drug called Imitrex that allowed doctors for the first time to prescribe something that was specifically designed to interrupt the cycle of pain. Last week Glaxo announced encouraging results for its second-generation migraine medication, a new drug called Amerge that lasts longer than Imitrex and is less likely to trigger unpleasant side effects. The FDA is considering Amerge for approval...
...high level meetings she would frequently interrupt those debating abstract policy points in order to maintain a general focus...
...situation became so dire that Professor of Classics and History Christopher P. Jones felt obliged to interrupt the normal repose of a November Faculty meeting to protest the problems...
...three scariest words in the English language. "I always thought I could keep my personal life separate from my professional life," says DeGeneres while sitting in a patio at her home in Beverly Hills. "In every interview I ever did"--she's squinting, too polite to interrupt this one even though the sun is clearly in her eyes--"everyone tried to trap me into saying I was gay. And I learned every way to dodge that. Or if they just blatantly asked me, I would say I don't talk about my personal life. I mean, I really tried...
Just as conversation stopped in the 1940s when Luciano entered a room and an austere silence of mixed awe and respect descended, it is a cardinal sin to whisper and interrupt the don during The Godfather. As one of Luciano's buddies would recall in a recent A&E docu-drama, "The clink of a glass, the drop of a hat--you'd hear the littlest sound, everyone was so quiet when Lucky arrived at the club." These were high profile men: men who drank their whisky straight, men who traveled in a cloud of cash and Cuban cigars, leaving...