Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lobbyist Daniel Dutko, who represents oil and communications companies and raised over $500,000 for the party, got to sit next to the White House senior adviser on the environment and telecommunications, the Vice President. "The sense of being involved, of helping the Administration, helps my clients," Dutko says. "There's no way to deny that...
Many researchers believe these same neuronal and hormonal pathways are the basis for the renowned and powerful "placebo effect." Decades of research show that if a patient truly believes a therapy is useful--even if it is a sugar pill or snake oil--that belief has the power to heal. In one classic 1950 study, for instance, pregnant women suffering from severe morning sickness were given syrup of ipecac, which induces vomiting, and told it was a powerful new cure for nausea. Amazingly, the women ceased vomiting. "Most of the history of medicine is the history of the placebo effect...
...Hopper, George Bellows, John Marin, Marsden Hartley--they all owed Homer something. His images of men, sea and mountain, and especially of women, were asexual, but that only made them more American, and saved them from the whiff of scandal that clung to Eakins. His mastery and fluency--in oil and especially in watercolor, which he was largely responsible for establishing as a serious medium in America--were the envy and secret despair of many an artist. The triumph of modernism after the 1930s, however, put Homer's reputation on the downgrade; he looked like an illustrator, with his jumping...
...Fish oil may be effective to treat CROHN'S DISEASE, the chronic inflammatory-bowel condition. More than half of patients in remission from the disease were spared a relapse by taking fish-oil capsules. They used a new slow-release form that lessened the oil's typical side effects, such as fishy body odor...
...lower right-hand corner of our TV screen in the spring. When the warnings seemed especially serious, my family would spend a few nervous hours in the dirt crawl space beneath our living room. I felt somewhat immune because of a local myth that the tremendous pressure at the oil refineries in our town of Phillips would keep tornadoes away. However, in the 1980s, after I left the area, the town was leveled; not a house was left standing. But it was not a tornado that wiped out the town. As part of an aggressive expansion plan, the oil company...