Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murmur. Doctors thought little of it, as such murmurs often disappear without treatment. But as Ro Anne grew, she had less and less energy. Diagnostic studies in 1959 at Denver's National Jewish Hospital showed that her heart's left ventricle had become enlarged by having to pump against the resistance of a narrowed aorta. She was too ill for an operation then. Even more disturbing, the doctors diagnosed Ro Anne's aortic abnormality as a form in which the great artery is narrowed just above the point where it leaves the heart, close to the aortic...
...inevitably damage the airways leading to the lungs and the oxygen-exchange cells in the walls of the lungs themselves, the effects usually appear slowly. There is an imperceptibly progressive shortness of breath. After years of decreased breathing volume and oxygen exchange, the heart has to work harder to pump more blood, and may fail in the process. The damage shows up dramatically when the lungs are subjected to added stress-from infection or vigorous exertion. This sort of weakness, said Colonel Phelps, is an increasing cause of medical retirement among officers aged 45 to 55. All the A.M.A...
...crises in affairs of the heart are more dreaded by physician, surgeon and patient alike than ventricular fibrillation -in which the heart's built-in electrical timing system fails and its lower chambers flutter futilely. Instead of beating purposefully and pumping blood to the whole body, they twitch ineffectively and pump nothing. There is no heartbeat. Doctors have tried to reverse the rapidly fatal process with a variety of electronic gadgets, but until recently no defibrillator has been able to do the job consistently. Now, some daring and resourceful doctors have become so sure they can restore a twitching...
...electrical industry a stinging lesson in how to get U.S. Government contracts. Hitachi won a $612,659 contract to build two 4,500-h.p. hydraulic turbines for the Interior Department's Blue Mesa power plant in Colorado, and another $3,221,813 contract to supply eight pump turbines for a federal reclamation project in California's San Joaquin valley. It won the awards simply because its bids ranged from 5% to 41% lower than those of such competing U.S. giants as Allis-Chalmers and Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. Hitachi, whose sales in the past five years have...
...Common Market members in a peculiar way. Each country grants its exporters a subsidy that is supposed to equal the turnover tax but is often higher: to make up for this, the Common Market permits its members to impose consumer taxes on imports. The end effect is to artificially pump up the price of imports...