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Hypotensive Anesthesia. By depressing a patient's blood pressure to very low levels, anesthesiologists can lessen the amount of blood lost and give the surgeon an almost clear field in which to work. This is particularly useful in surgery on vessels that carry blood to the brain and in orthopedic operations like hip implants. The anesthesiologist anesthetizes the patient, then infuses a drug, usually nitroprusside, to dilate the blood vessels. This causes the pressure of blood against the vessel walls to drop from a normal reading of, say, 120/80 to as low as 65/50. The anesthesiologist must be careful...
Mitchell, a former chairman of the House Black Caucus, referred to President Reagan's programs to lessen the role of government as a shift as major as the revolution of 1776, the Civil War and the New Deal. He also decried what he said was increasing racism around the country and in Congress, criticizing attacks on affirmative action...
Cancer patients can legally obtain purified marijuana to lessen the nausea and vomiting often caused by chemotherapy and avoid the dangers Kagan described. But patients in pain often seek the drug elsewhere and "must assume special risks" because their immune system has been weakened by other drugs, Kagan said...
...Laurence Olivier as General Burgoyne," etc., all to the strains of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"), and we have a delightful second-act coda with Thomas Derrah delivering a voice-over of a soldier's death for a sequence of the movie. This helps to lessen the play's claim to seriousness and lets it stand as glorified burlesque. Kustow's direction throughout is faithful to Wood's music-hall style, with an unending series of visual gags and (with some noticeable gaps) a fast-paced verbal attack--much of it funny, much of it silly...
...unidentified mid-level National Security Agency employee has successfully challenged this policy. He won the right to keep his job as a technical analyst despite his homosexuality, but only after agreeing to lessen the danger of blackmail by disclosing his sexual preference to his family (mother, sisters and brothers). Franklin Kameny, a member of the Washington, D.C., Commission on Human Rights and a gay activist, calls the decision "a major breakthrough...