Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chief advantage over surgery is that the method puts less stress on the patient, since it does not require extensive open heart surgery and the long recovery period often associated with it. In addition, the procedure requires no anesthesia...
Female breasts, he says, may also influence irregularities on thallium stress tests; simply put, the breast tissue gets in the way of the imaging technique. Doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City have apparently circumvented that problem by using the PET (positron-emission tomography) scan, which they say is highly accurate in detecting even minor heart damage in women...
Despite all of these perceived cliques, gay students stress that no generalization can cover the social life of a gay population which is as diverse as Harvard's straight community...
...recent novels have seemed a touch broody, enjoys himself with this one. The fine barrelhouse prose of The Bushwhacked Piano and Ninety-Two in the Shade is working again. He waves his arms, he hoots and hollers and thrashes out a rowdy parody of the male psyche under the stress of having to defend itself in the supermarket. Without taking sides, of course, between male and female, he makes it clear that what Frank needs is the loving care of a good woman. What will set female readers to muttering Wiccan incantations is the certainty that some patient woman, like...
...final stress of the convention was on presenting a virtual biography of Clinton in film and speeches. It was necessary, says Carville, because focus- group research had found that many voters had no idea that Clinton had come from a poor family in Hope, Arkansas, and had had an alcoholic stepfather; they thought that a rich father had got him into politics. The bio might have seemed corny to some observers, but it and the thunderous reception Clinton and his family received when they paid a dramatic visit to the convention floor on Wednesday night put the capstone...