Word: traction
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...manager. Harkin, the most combative and liberal of the group, is expected to attack the centrist Clinton, whom Harkin views as his main rival in the coming months. Neither of the other two candidates, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder and former California Governor Jerry Brown, appears to be gaining much traction in what looks to be one of the most fluid primary-season openers in recent memory...
...helpful for a major category of patients with lower-back pain: people who are generally healthy but who had developed back trouble within the preceding two or three weeks. Another important study published last summer in the British Medical Journal compared chiropractic treatment with outpatient hospital care that included traction and various kinds of physical therapy. Its conclusion: spinal manipulation was more effective for relieving low-back aches for up to three years after diagnosis...
Three days after his return to Cambridge, Weisbrod entered UHS for his first stay--it would last 15 days. He went into traction to stretch out the vertebrae in his back and loosen the inflamed disk, the lowest in his back...
...insisted its main effect would be to offset damage done to earlier practices by a series of Supreme Court decisions. Bush said he supported that goal but argued that the bill's specific provisions would pressure employers to adopt quotas as a means of avoiding litigation. His position gained traction even though the bill explicitly said nothing in it "shall be construed to require or encourage quotas." When compromise efforts failed, Bush on Oct. 22 vetoed the bill, calling it a "destructive force...