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...patient look at a graphic on her clipboard as he answered. The graphic was a 10cm line with numbers like a ruler, as well as upside down smiley faces depicting progressively greater discomfort - the VAS (visual analog pain scale). Patients are supposed to tell our nurses how much pain they feel by pointing to a spot along the line...
...perhaps this vision of decline is false. Share believes that poetry is in an extremely healthy state. “My predecessor [at the Harvard Review] started it here with an Exacto blade and a ruler, the old fashion way,” he says...
...into effect in 1789, gave the U.S. a more energetic government, though not, at first, a navy, and President George Washington felt obliged to go to the bargaining table once more. The fruit of his negotiations was the Tripoli Treaty, ratified by his successor, John Adams. The pasha, or ruler, of Tripoli lowered the price of peace to $52,000, jewels and assorted naval supplies. In 1801, seeking a better price, the pasha declared war on the U.S. by cutting down the flagpole in front of the American consulate. This turned out to be a mistake, since America...
...Macau's Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, regulators in Macau agreed to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Given the crackdown, it may well have been embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...
...Banco Delta Asia a "willing pawn" in money laundering for Pyongyang, prompting the territory's regulators to freeze $24 million in North Korean funds held by the bank. Amid that crackdown it may have been a bit embarrassing for a potential heir of the nuclear-armed hermit kingdom's ruler to pop up in the territory...