Word: ulcerating
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...ulcer had been acting up and no wonder. Poland's government had initiated another smear campaign against him. This time, the authorities said, he was under investigation for currency violations. Days before, the state-run television network had played a tape recording in which he could purportedly be heard discussing a $1 million foreign bank account and bemoaning the fact that he had been passed up for a Nobel Prize last year. To relieve the pressure, Lech Walesa, leader of the now banned Solidarity movement, went off with a group of friends one day last week to hunt...
Aspartame, 200 times as sweet as sugar, has had a bitter journey since being accidentally discovered in 1965 by a Searle scientist researching an ulcer drug. Aspartame-sweetened Diet Rite and diet Coke have already been sold in Canada, and diet Coke has also quenched thirsts in Ireland and Scandinavia, but the U.S. introduction had been held up by the FDA, which was wary after its approval years earlier of cyclamates and saccharin. Aspartame won FDA acceptance in 1974, only to be pulled back after some scientists voiced concern that the substance might cause brain damage...
Rosch and others point out that no single approach to relaxation is right for everyone. "Meditation may be good for somebody with hypertension," says Rosch, "and bad for someone with a peptic ulcer...
...sclerosis, diabetes, genital herpes and even trench mouth. It is a sorry sign of the times that the three bestselling drugs in the country are an ulcer medication (Tagamet), a hypertension drug (Inderal) and a tranquilizer (Valium). Concludes Dr. Joel Elkes, director of the behavioral medicine program at the University of Louisville: "Our mode of life itself, the way we live, is emerging as today's principal cause of illness...
...Thursday morning, Domenici concluded that the entire budget process would be imperiled if his committee did not quickly reach a decision. He sent word through aides to Howard Baker, who was briefly hospitalized for treatment of an ulcer, that he could wait no longer. Baker agreed. The budget chairman next lunched with Florida Senator Lawton Chiles, ranking Democrat on the committee. Domenici told Chiles that the White House was seeking yet another delay in the vote. Domenici said he would present the Administration's revenue proposals to the committee; if they lost, as he expected, Chiles should offer...