Word: coughing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high cost of research, expiring patents and the explosive growth of generic drugs, many pharmaceutical companies will step up efforts to broaden their global reach through mergers or cooperative ventures. But such pressures were few in 1896, when Hoffmann-La Roche was formed in Basel and began producing a cough syrup called Sirolin. The company prospered at first but then almost went broke during World War I because one of its important markets was revolution-torn Russia. Fearing a Nazi invasion in the 1930s, Hoffmann-La Roche created a twin Canadian-based company called Sapac to run its overseas operations...
...just the sort of heartless harassment that has made the Internal Revenue Service one of the most resented arms of the Federal Government. A while ago, the IRS sent a computerized notice to journalism professor Alann Steen, telling him that if he did not cough up back taxes due on his 1984 return within 30 days, the tax collectors would take him to court. But there was a hitch. For the past 21 months, Steen has been one of the Americans held hostage by Islamic terrorists in Lebanon. As such, Steen, 49, seems to qualify for the unofficial IRS policy...
...could not afford to lose. In one match Norman was three holes behind with four holes left to play. Several hundred dollars in the red, he pressed (essentially doubling the stakes) on the 16th and then again on the 18th. Had he lost he would have had to cough up a nonexistent $1,200; instead he ended up $800 ahead. That night, after dinner, he went out and gambled and won again, pitting his extraordinary hand-eye coordination against local pool hustlers. Norman has not forgotten the match-play skills he acquired during those early years. He is a three...
...suprising. As Vice President, in 1985 he cast the deciding vote in favor of increasing out of pocket expenses for elderly medicare recipients. With his patrician upbringing, Bush doesn't seem to understand middle-class dilemmas such as, "Should I go to the doctor about that hacking cough, or should I buy shoes for my children...
...things wrong with ourselves. We feel under siege." Everyday ailments, from tension headaches to forgetfulness, that would once have been dismissed as normal are now seen as a symptom of disease. "We're told that everything is an early-warning sign, from night sweats and gas pains to dry coughs," says Barsky. "But it's normal for some people to sweat at night, a dry cough will probably go away, and gas pains are gas pains." Americans, he declares, "have to stop running around trying to cure the ailments of everyday life and make peace with themselves...