Word: potentes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation ago, labeling was usu ally unimportant because only a few medicines were potent enough to do much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...
Suffering from amoebic dysentery, fainting spells and an inflamed kidney, Moise Tshombe, 43, was being treated last week in the Clinique de Passy in Paris. At the same time, his once potent and economically healthy domain of Katanga was going under the knife back in the Congo. Last year the Congo central government cut North Katanga out of Tshombe's former domain, leaving him only the southern part. Now the government subdivided the area further, into the provinces of East Katanga and Lualaba...
Jack and Christine met several times in Ward's flat. "Mentally, we became very close," said Christine. It happened, just like it happened with Ivanov. At least that is how Christine told it in the News of the World: "There was one of those electric, potent silences, and he was kissing me and I was returning his kisses with everything I suddenly felt for him." Once, when Valerie was in Ireland on holiday, Profumo took Christine to his house in Regent's Park. "We crept around the lovely rooms and then we got to THEIR bedroom...
...A.M.A. Journal on "simple, safe and effective" alternatives using both vaccines. The doctors found that the killed virus provides 100% immunity if given in three monthly doses. It can also be used to stimulate the formation of protective antibody before a child gets a shot of the more potent live virus. In either case, side effects are slight and infrequent. The investigators gave the live virus vaccine to 296 children who had already had one dose of the killed virus, and only 15% of the subjects developed a fever; 3% got a mild rash. For those who had two doses...
...another way of seeking extra benefits, the proud and potent Brazilian dockworkers, who take home close to $500 a month but let automatic loading machines do part of the work, are demanding "shame" bonuses of 30% for handling such cargo as toilet bowls and sanitary napkins...