Word: program
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...biggest bug in the blue-pill program is its effect on the old ticker. Viagra was already known to clash badly with heart disease drugs such as nitroglycerin; now the researchers have anecdotal evidence to suggest that any cardiovascular complaint might put you in the danger zone. Pfizer's response? You're 2.5 times more likely to have heart trouble in the hours after sex anyway -- with or without the little blue pill. And since that hasn't stopped men so far, these latest warnings are hardly likely to deflate Viagra's sales figures: 3.6 million and rising...
REALITY CHECK Clinton receives an induction notice while at Oxford in 1969 and asks the draft board to postpone it until the end of the term, after which he enrolls in an ROTC program in Arkansas. A well-connected uncle also successfully lobbies the board on Clinton's behalf...
...retained the opportunity to advance goals important to him and to the nation. Some of his supporters felt betrayed by the temporizing measures he adopted in order to survive, especially his "devolution" of welfare to the states. That was shortsighted of them; sacrificing one measure to save the whole program is the kind of strategic choice a leader must make when in straits. The greatest comeback of the comeback kid was that recovery of his position after 1994, which made his 1996 victory--the first Democrat since Roosevelt to have won re-election--as much a "miracle" as Truman...
...decisions to let the ruble float down as much as 34% and to put a moratorium on corporate- and bank-debt repayments are desperate measures, steps the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund advised against. If they are followed by real reforms of the tax and banking systems, the program might restore some confidence in the economy and bring investors back. But by itself, the floating ruble will slash the savings of some Russians and increase the cost of living for many, especially those who live in the cities, where more than half the food in the shops is imported...
...first glance, the Phillipses seemed prosecutable. Child-neglect laws in nearly every state make parents who fail to obtain medical treatment for their seriously ill children liable. However, a 1974 federal child-care program made funding contingent on the states' exempting faith-healing parents. That requirement no longer exists, but 41 states retain exemptions from local civil-abuse and -neglect laws. In Oregon, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia there are also exemptions from criminal homicide or manslaughter charges. Says Gustafson: "I've spent nights trying to figure out a way to bring the message to this church that...