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Although Mitchell was once active in his county Democratic Party and supported Dick Gephardt for President in 1988 he can't stomach Bill Clinton and hasn't seen him tackle the wage problem in an effective way. Nor is Mitchell hearing answers from most of the Republicans running for President. But there's one exception, and that's why, on a crisp October evening, Mitchell drives to a hotel ballroom on the outskirts of town and listens to a former Nixon speechwriter named Pat Buchanan...
...bold statement after another is superimposed on the solar surface: "The idea behind it led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine," reads the first, followed by, "It's the most prescribed medication of its kind." As the sun is gradually eclipsed, the boasts continue: "It helps block production of stomach acid." "It's the world's first acid blocker." Then, against the glowing corona of a totally eclipsed sun, "And now it's available without a prescription." Finally the eclipsed image resolves into the illustration on a drug package labeled Tagamet HB, under which is inscribed, "Now for heartburn...
Relief from heartburn has been provided for more than a century by antacids that include such familiar brands as Tums, Rolaids, Maalox and Mylanta, products that annually rack up sales approaching $1 billion in the U.S. alone. These antacids, which bring relief within minutes, work by neutralizing the stomach acid that causes heartburn. But because the stomach continues to produce acid, they remain effective for only a few hours...
...beginning in the late 1970s, pharmaceutical companies started offering such new drugs as Zantac, Tagamet, Pepcid and Axid, available only by prescription for those with serious heartburn or ulcers. While these brands took as long as an hour to kick in, they actually blocked the production of stomach acids and could protect against heartburn for as long as 12 hours. Despite their prescription-only status, these drugs quickly won favor, and today account for $3.7 billion annually in U.S. sales...
...them moving! And I went to work shaking boughs, bombarding with cones, rustling, hooting...Then I took a closer look, and I was horror-struck. Here's a man with his head hanging by one flimsy crimson thread, there's one with a heap of thick worms for stomach...I could not endure it. I let out a howl, jumped...