Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chest, where it is used to create a detour around the obstruction. For patients with blockages in the left main coronary artery, the heart's principal conduit, a bypass offers the best hope of prolonging life. The procedure is also the treatment of choice for those with crippling pain due to several clogged coronary arteries...
...institute's study does not challenge these applications of surgery. Instead, it focuses on whether or not bypass operations extend the life of patients with less severe heart disease. Some of those selected for the study were suffering from mild to moderate angina, the viselike chest pains that signal a decreased supply of blood to the heart; others had a history of one or more heart attacks but did not have recurrent chest pains. The 780 participants, all under age 65, were randomly treated either with bypass surgery or with drugs, such as nitroglycerin and diuretics, that ease pain...
They are rude and accusatory, cynical and almost unpatriotic. They twist facts to suit their not-so-hidden liberal agenda. They meddle in politics, harass business, invade people's privacy, and then walk off without regard to the pain and chaos they leave behind. They are arrogant and self-righteous, brushing aside most criticism as the uninformed carping of cranks and ideologues. To top it off, they claim that their behavior is sanctioned, indeed sanctified, by the U.S. Constitution...
...bearer of bad tidings. Since World War II, journalists have covered the turmoil of the civil rights movement, conveyed vivid scenes of domestic protest and battlefield gore during the Viet Nam War, and participated in the collapse of a presidency. Within the past two years, the press chronicled the pain of 10% unemployment. Increasingly, this bad news has been brought by the emotional medium of TV, which can seem rudely intrusive at both ends of its electronic linkage: at the scene of suffering and in the privacy of the viewer's living room...
...After, a statement said that a real nuclear war would be much worse. Indeed it would. The documentary on Cambodia probably could also have ended with a statement that the reality was worse. The reality is always worse. TV film does not transmit pain, only an image of pain, a faint visual echo...