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...stiff arms, trick knees, flat feet or the loss of an index, middle or ring finger from at least the mid-portion (slicing off the first joint will not do). Cardiovascular diseases and psychiatric disorders-including homosexuality and bedwetting -each accounted for 11%. So did being 20% overweight or underweight. Bad eyesight claimed 6%, while 7,600 beat the system by being too tall and 3,800 others because they were too short (the upper limit is now 6 ft. 8 in., the lower limit 5 ft.). A surprisingly large number-22,800-were kept out by bad cases...
...tapered at both ends). U.S.P. permits .5% moisture and weight loss on drying; Bayer will tolerate none. U.S.P. allows up to .1% free salicylic acid; Bayer holds to one-third of that, and halves three other U.S.P. permissible deviations from absolute purity. In the finished tablets, U.S.P. accepts 5% underweight for the active ingredient; Bayer none. U.S.P. permits .15% free salicylic acid; Bayer still holds to its own requirement of not more than .035%. Disintegration in water, says U.S.P., must be complete in five minutes; Bayer says begin in 2 seconds and be complete within 30 seconds...
...audiences could, and they liked the blooming English beauty. The hair is russet and gold, the body big but underweight, angular and appealing. What audiences liked critics loved. Her Rosalind in As You Like It was called "the best in history," her Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew "fiery, lovely, right and true...
...park I saved seventy-seven people." Funny thing though, all the "victims" accused Reagan of trying to play the hero. Ronnie admits it. In football, he recalls, "the lure of sweat and action always pulled me back to the game--despite the fact that I was a scrawny, undersized, underweight nuisance, who insisted on getting in the way of the more skillful." Forty years later, he hasn't changed much...
...acetohexamide (Lilly's Dymelor). Drs. Weller and Linder emphasize that these sulfonylureas promote the release of insulin-at least in the early stages of treatment-and thus help to make fat. They recommend sulfonylureas for patients whose weight problems are not critical and for the few who are underweight. For the overweight, they prescribe phenformin (U.S. Vitamin Corp.'s DBI), which, they say, helps both to control appetite and to speed the metabolism of blood sugar...