Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poor health. The medical report, signed by Dr. Yevgeni Chazov, the chief Kremlin physician, revealed that Chernenko had died of heart failure brought on by chronic emphysema. The report noted that the late General Secretary had also suffered from "chronic hepatitis, which worsened into cirrhosis," a deterioration of the liver...
Leaded gas, which has been used for decades to prevent engine knock, still accounts for some 45% of all gasoline sales. But lead poisoning can damage the brain, liver and kidneys, particularly in children. Recent studies have linked lead to high blood pressure. In ordering refiners to get most of the lead out, the EPA estimates that the cutback could prevent some 5,000 heart attacks and 1,000 strokes next year alone...
Divestment activists retort that however much American corporations do to improve the liver of the fewer than I percent of the country's Black workers they employ, they contribute directly to the apartheid state. American companies, they say, sell the white minority regime the vehicles, fuel and electronic equipment it needs to enforce apauheid...
...interior and exterior, enveloped the men of Mamou on the morning of the great ride. Breakfast was beer and boudin (pronounced boo-dan, a muscular local sausage of rice, pork and pork liver that can quickly become an addiction). The mounted Cajun corps made it half a mile down the road before it had to find a field to relieve itself...
...outset, the final stage was an amateurish hit-or-miss affair. The coqueros were content to ship cocaine into the U.S. via "mules," who would coat their stomachs with cod-liver oil or honey, then swallow the cocaine wrapped in condoms. If they were lucky, they could flush the drug out once they were over the border. Soon enough, however, the cocaine czars could afford to send bulk shipments into the U.S. in their own DC-6 aircraft or by high-powered speedboats. By 1983, indeed, the system was running so efficiently that the market was glutted with cocaine...