Word: irregulars
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This later study confirmed her previous results, as she found that the selected athletes had a delayed menarche, a "lean" build and irregular menstrual cycles...
First developed three decades ago, the small battery-operated devices transmit electrical impulses that correct both irregular and slow heartbeats. However, many abnormal rhythms do not warrant pacemakers; some may be caused by medication or associated with circulatory problems. When Greenspan and his colleagues reviewed the 1983 medical charts for 382 Philadelphia-area pacemaker patients, they found that 20% of the implants were completely unnecessary and 36% were not adequately justified. The solution, he argues, includes better training for physicians and more diagnostic tests...
...pooches with an irregular heartbeat, there are human pacemakers. In St. Petersburg, the Pinellas Animal Foundation supplies donated human pacemakers to vets who request them for needy canines. Mrs. Florence Myers, 84, who once owned a dachshund, plans to donate her $8,000 pacemaker to the foundation when she dies. Says she: "I just feel it would be nice if someday some dog could...
Hahn, 28, first came to public notice as the former church secretary from Long Island, N.Y., who toppled Televangelist Jim Bakker from the pulpit of his lucrative PTL ministry by admitting an irregular sexual escapade into which Bakker and fellow Preacher John Fletcher allegedly conscripted her in 1980. Now she is on the cover of the November Playboy, which paid about three- quarters of a million dollars for an interview ("I'm not a bimbo," she said) and topless photo layout. Her face has become familiar on such shows as Larry King Live and Good Morning, America. Her lawyer, Dominic...
...behalf of the U.S. in the Caribbean and the Middle East. Active-duty officers, an ambassador and an Assistant Secretary of State project this same air of haughtiness. Perhaps this stand is best represented by Fawn Hall. She justified shredding documents and other actions she knew were improper and irregular by her belief in the correctness of Oliver North's "initiatives." Does Hall think that she, Lieut. Colonel North and others who temporarily occupy Government jobs of trust and responsibility are the Government? These people's actions are governed by job descriptions...