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...dosage prescriptions are turned away by drug stores, which are also subject to DEA investigations. "It's demeaning," says Mary Vargas, a Maryland attorney whose spine was injured in an auto accident. "Pharmacists tell me they don't have the medication, only to recant and dispense it when I persist with the manager...
...measure of Deighton's considerable skill is that despite Samson's chronic grousing, anyone who starts Berlin Game is likely to persist through to the end of London Match. The story could have been brilliant if some ferocious editor had slashed it ruthlessly to one taut volume. Even so, the texture is wonderfully gray and grainy, and the scenes between Volkmann and Samson in the first and third novels are authoritative. Samson's predicament is a metaphor of middle age, if anyone should need one. And in the days of constant spy revelations, the central questions continue to haunt...
Even if the contras were willing to persist in a guerrilla war, there is doubt that U.S. opinion would persist in backing them. The current wrangle over aid to the contras is all too typical of what happens when the American political system tries to cope with a controversial foreign entanglement that does not promise clear or early results...
With one week left before online course evaluations close, concerns about the new online process persist even though the overall student response rate had climbed to the 60 percent averaged using paper evaluations as of yesterday afternoon...
...review of 71 studies in Psychosomatics finds long-term symptoms of concussion tend to persist when patients are involved in a lawsuit. Most improve after their cases are settled...