Word: swallowable
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...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a fair amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...incident was unfortunate because it focused attention on death in mildly affected patients, whereas the biggest problem for those of us who care for Alzheimer's patients is the prolongation of life in advanced stages of disease. The question for us is, When patients inevitably lose the ability to swallow, should we advise their families to put in a stomach tube to feed them? My own personal advice is that they shouldn't. If these patients could come out of their state for a moment, knowing they would return to a state of absolutely no comprehension and no hope, would...
...GROWN DEPENDENT on these garbage collectors and drivers. When the garbage monster runs out of land to swallow, what's next...
...month preceding the invasion of Kuwait say they provided precise details of Iraqi troop movements, logistics and air activity. But for most of that crucial period the reports remained vague on a fundamental question: Was Saddam bluffing the Kuwaitis, planning a short cross-border raid, or about to swallow the country whole? One explanation: intelligence assessments tend to be cautious and shy away from firm predictions. But there were other reasons why the Administration was so slow to come to terms with threats from Saddam. Policymakers who had spent years offering sanguine assessments of his regime were reluctant to accept...
...things easier. The battle was quick enough to prevent the coalition from fragmenting and pro-Saddam passions from boiling over. Yet it lasted long enough to give the allies time to truncate Iraq's military, neutralizing its mischiefmaking potential for some time to come. And by forcing Saddam to swallow bitter terms for a cease- fire, the allies have stripped him of his appeal as an Arab...