Word: spleening
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...writer, a newsman at The Australian, argues that antagonists Keating (below) and Howard, the dominant politicians of their generation, are the joint fathers of today's affluence-and partners in the disruptive reforms that have transformed Australia over the past two decades. Some commentators in these matters rely on spleen, others on lofty remoteness. Megalogenis is a data fiend and a diviner of patterns and types. Few know their way around a statistical time series like he does; no one can match his ingenuity in figuring out what to do with it. When Megalogenis describes the rise of the McMansion...
...relieved to hear this that I got teary, as did Seth?s family. Years of clinical experience told me that Seth did not have leukemia. He had no pallor or bruising, his spleen and his lymph nodes weren?t enlarged, and the history of his illness didn?t match. I knew he didn?t have leukemia, but what mattered was that they didn?t. A blood count performed two minutes later alleviated everyone?s fears, and after hugs all around, Seth?s family left the office rather giddily...
What was the treatment like? Patients first underwent surgery to clear the abdominal area?including around the liver, spleen and under the diaphragm?of as much cancer as possible, followed by 18 weeks of chemo...
...Thursday night, the mayor of New Orleans had had enough and vented his spleen on a local radio station, WWL-AM. "This is ridiculous. I don't want to see anybody do any more press conferences," said Nagin. "We authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave the President unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take care of New York and other places," he said. "You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure...
...Jackson in 2000, when the accuser was 10 and suffering from what was diagnosed as incurable leukemia. Surgeons removed his left kidney and spleen and a 16-lb. tumor. He was given large doses of chemotherapy, which doctors said would either save his life or kill him. The kid deserved a break. When he asked to meet his hero, Michael Jackson, it was arranged...