Word: sides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...insist if SPIL is to continue to exist--and we would prefer that it dissolve and go away--that students sit on the side of the owners at the same time," Natale said. "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more, and we're absolutely dead serious about that...
Nonetheless, the new findings have intensified debate about whether diuretics should remain a first-line option for treating high blood pressure. Many doctors support continued widespread use, arguing that newer, alternative drugs are more expensive and that their long-term side effects have not been as well established. But others are pressing for more restricted use of water pills. At the least, say some, patients who have diabetes probably should not be taking diuretics...
...cholesterol-lowering drugs should be used only after diet modification fails, many doctors are too quick to reach for the prescription pad. Reason: patients find it easier to take pills than to give up steak and eggs. Yet taking drugs for a lifetime can have unintended and perhaps dangerous side effects. The well-established anticholesterol drugs, including cholestyramine and nicotinic acid, seem to be relatively safe, but they can produce such discomforts as nausea and intestinal pain. Newer drugs, like the heavily promoted lovastatin, may be better tolerated, but their long-term safety and effectiveness have not been established. Moreover...
...secret trials began on May 24 in San Francisco. For three weeks, patients received infusions of Compound Q, some as high as 17 times the dosage given patients in the San Francisco General Hospital toxicity trials. For the first 48 hours, the carefully monitored volunteers suffered side effects of sore muscles, nausea, fever and fatigue. The side effects eventually went away, and many patients, including Bob Barnett, began to feel more energetic...
...trying to locate their ethical bearings in this brave new world. At one extreme are the traditionalists, who insist that a staged scene of any kind is inappropriate on a news program, which depends for its credibility on presenting the truth and nothing but. On the other side are a new generation of TV news producers, under pressure from network bosses to come up with programs that will draw prime-time-size audiences. Re-enactments, the proponents argue, if carefully used and clearly labeled, can help impart information and expand the kinds of stories TV news...