Word: jugulars
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...expected so that the concepts bandied about by his characters remain far enough removed, somewhere obliquely out of reach enough to be nearly mystical. In this way Who's Afraid challenges the audience, and when coupled with the barebelly truth of a guts-and-gore-go-for-the-jugular brand of marital warfare, it conjures up fears and claws at the conscience of anyone who hopes to improve their lot in life...
...lower than normal rate of output right after surgery." The Stanford group also routinely performs heart biopsies after surgery, looking for any clinical clue that the body's immune system may be rejecting the new heart. By slipping a biopsy catheter into the right ventricle via the jugular vein, doctors snip a piece of tissue, then compare it with a sample taken at the time of the original operation. If the biopsied tissue shows inflammation-a sign of rejection-the doctors temporarily increase the dosage of drugs that suppress the immune system after transplant surgery...
...Jugular Vein. Other experts, among them Citibank Economist Leif Olsen, doubt that the shortfall will be that severe. Yet the price of avoiding crisis, the optimists agree, will be a sharp scaling down of the nation's investment goals through the mid-1980s. In a recent study sponsored by Washington's Brookings Institution, Harvard's James Duesenberry and two other economists derided "Cassandras" who are forecasting a shortage and concluded that "we can afford the future, but just barely." The Duesenberry study contends that Government can be counted upon to come to the rescue: by running...
...projects, like energy development. The liberal argument is that capital is not so much in short supply as inefficiently used; for evidence, they point to the overbuilding of shopping centers and vacation condominiums. Conservatives, meanwhile, maintain that an allocation system is unworkable and would cripple the capitalist system-the jugular vein of which is the free movement of money. Moreover, they contend that the real need is for more investment. Among their proposals: lowering the capital gains tax and allowing companies to depreciate their plant and equipment faster and deduct dividends as an expense -thereby releasing more corporate funds...
Parker became irritated at this point in the match, sensing a Harvard upset brewing with the match halfway over. The coach's jugular vein nearly jumped on to the mat as Dee was handling his matman...