Word: swollen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last spring doctors administered a dose of radioactive iodine to slow down the First Lady's hyperactive thyroid. But treatment with a steroid, prednisone, failed to cure her vision problems. Should the radiation treatments (in which low-intensity rays are focused on swollen tissues behind the eyes) prove no more effective, the next step could be surgery...
During the crisis, Menem remained virtually out of sight. The key question is whether he will stick to this latest plan, since he has failed to honor many other austerity pledges. He had promised to rid the swollen Argentine government of scores of money-losing businesses and to make the country's bloated public sector more efficient, presumably by trimming its size through layoffs or attrition. But Menem, a Peronist whose political base is Argentina's powerful labor movement, has not had the stomach to set the stage for a confrontation with the country's blue-collar workers by carrying...