Word: irregularities
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Methods are eclectic at the Concordia villages, but real back-and-forth conversation is the first goal. Credit students learn their case endings and irregular verbs, but clowning around, even at the advanced level, keeps scholars fresh and interested. Students stage ridiculous dining-hall skits in their new languages and prove that you can't be self-conscious speaking Spanish while dressed like half an elephant. Everyone sings almost without stop: nonsense songs; protest songs; "rocken roll," as they say in Norway; and anthems celebrating a "world without walls," which has been the villages' global theme since the dismantling...
...Politically the summiteers agreed on making the 35-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe the vehicle to promote regular dialogue between East and West. C.S.C.E. is merely a name attached to occasional, and irregular, meetings. But the NATO chiefs proposed giving it the rudiments of an organization: a program for meetings of the heads of government at least once a year, a small secretariat, a mechanism to monitor elections in all the member countries and a Center for the Prevention of Conflict "that might serve as a forum for exchanges of military information ((and)) discussion of unusual military...
Granted, the testing is probably safe. But who, even experienced doctors and medical researchers, can really foresee the effects of new drugs or fifteen days of irregular sleep patterns on a person's body? Perhaps something like, "EARN UP TO $1,000 IN 2 WEEKS" is appropriate for a moving company advertisement, but for a laboratory looking for human "research subjects? For their purposes, the hospital's advertising techniques are completely uncalled for. In essence, they are treating the matter as Saatchi and Saatchi would treat a Coke ad, and that's not right...
...hours earlier -- and had been struggling to breathe ever since. His blood pressure was an alarming 200 over 140 (120 over 80 is normal). Such severe hypertension can impair lung function and lead to congestive heart failure. McKinney's EKG showed an irregular, rapid heartbeat...
...report published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers revealed that daily doses of aspirin, or of a blood-thinning medication called warfarin, could sharply curtail the risk of stroke in patients suffering from atrial fibrillation, a condition in which the heartbeat is rapid and irregular. The 1 million Americans who have this abnormality face five times the normal risk of stroke. The study, which was to involve 1,244 patients over four years, found that the drugs could cut that risk so dramatically, by 80%, that research was halted after just two years so that...