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...Courtney?s actions, Dr. Bull adds, could easily have thrown off the intricate timing of cancer treatment. "This is a fairly dire scenario in that chemotherapy drugs are most effective against tumors at the highest dose you can get in without toxicity, and the patients who received dosage from this pharmacist obviously weren?t getting that potency...
...hours, the Thai tanker appeared as a collection of bright lights on the horizon. The two teams waited for it to pass, slipping on their balaclavas before firing up the outboards and circling around behind. As they approached, crashing over the bow wave and skidding on the bubbling sea, thrown up by the tanker's immense screws, two men from the first team stood and lifted their poles as though for a joust. As soon as they could hook the side of the ship, they began climbing, the pilot accelerating in short bursts to keep the boat steady. In seven...
...lean years of the '70s and '80s, when cheap quartz watches from the Far East decimated the Swiss industry's traditional market. "If I'd had kids back then, I'd never have advised them to go into this business," he says. But today that trend has been thrown into reverse as watch manufacturers scramble to make up for two decades when recruiting was nonexistent...
...bubbly synth pop, it's not social awkwardness they're worried about; should things go awry, the audience is led to believe, they may be pummeled within an inch of their lives. "Crowd" is also crucial in "The Breakfast Club" (1985), in which teenagers from five different social strata thrown together in detention spend a whole movie figuring out how to get along, "Can't Buy Me Love" (1987), in which a dork bribes a popular girl into pretending to date him, "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987), in which Eric Stoltz must choose between a little drummer grrrl...
...their unmitigated political might into very personal economic and financial might. In order to accomplish that, they had to throw certain bones to the people. But then they set about converting that economic power back into political power, at the same time withdrawing some of those bones they had thrown. And the people are too exhausted to resist...