Word: stomachful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knot tightens in the Western businessman's stomach as he peers glumly at the Japanese negotiating team across the table. The executive's flight leaves early tomorrow. His home office has been pressing him to complete a deal quickly. But although the talks have dragged on for days, the key issues have barely been discussed. "What is this?" the frustrated businessman wonders. "Don't these people know that time is money...
...also has more than 120,000 pharmacists. One of the most severe criticisms of Japanese medicine made by Westerners is that family doctors overprescribe. An American scholar who recently consulted a Japanese doctor for a mildly sprained ankle came away with a muscle relaxant, an anti-inflammatory drug, a stomach powder to ease the side effects of the drugs, and a foot plaster. In the U.S., he probably would have been told to stay off the foot for a while and take a few aspirin...
...want prayer for arthritis, stand up. Maybe it's in your neck, your shoulders, your back. Maybe in your hips or your knees. Who has a problem in your stomach and you want prayer? Kidney, liver, hernia, colon-any problem in the stomach? Please stand for prayer...
...wonder is that these people sometimes grow hard around the heart; when you've seen one mutilation, you've seen them all. Still, as Arthur Koestler wrote of the war in Spain: "Anyone who has lived through the hell of Madrid with his eyes, his heart, his stomach, and then pretends to be objective, is a liar...
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