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  • Zero-g exercise regimens could keep the heart and bones healthy, but none had been devised that would give them full function from Sol 1.†   (source)
  • By itself, the regimen proposed here, when followed rigorously, can purify the foulest breath.†   (source)
  • Guys with grooming regimens and proper haircuts and stylish coats.†   (source)
  • Every table presents new temptations, and even on my restricted one-taste-per-dish regimen, I begin filling up quickly.†   (source)
  • Sources on the standard treatment regimen for cervical cancer in the 1950s include A. Brunschwig, "The Operative Treatment of Carcinoma of the Cervix: Radical Panhysterectomy with Pelvic Lymph Node Excision," American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 61, no. 6 (June 1951); R. W Green, "Carcinoma of the Cervix: Surgical Treatment (A Review)," Journal of the Maine Medical Association 42, no. 11 (November 1952); R. T Schmidt, "Panhysterectomy in the Treatment of Carcinoma of the…†   (source)
  • "I've got them on a strict workout regimen," he says, grinning at me.†   (source)
  • Young Riders like yourself were put through a strict regimen designed to strengthen their bodies and increase their mental control.†   (source)
  • As soon as we started the extreme weight-loss regimen, Fred began showing tip with bits and pieces of food he'd buried all around the yard and kennel over the past year.†   (source)
  • People suggesting new drug combinations, new physical therapy regimens, new doctors, experimental treatments, Eastern medicine, Jesus.†   (source)
  • I noticed, however, that his health regimen didn't keep him from eating more than half of my food.†   (source)
  • He said Baba needed regimen, order.†   (source)
  • Margaret Kochamma (because she knew that when you travel to the Heart of Darkness [b] Anything can Happen to Anyone) called her in to have her regimen of pills.†   (source)
  • Still, I knew I was in for a brutal time, especially since the surgery needed to be followed by an extremely toxic regimen of chemotherapy and radiation.†   (source)
  • To speak plainly, her madness was a fraud and an imposture, adopted by her in order that she might indulge herself and be indulged, the strict regimen of the Penitentiary, where she had been placed as a just punishment for her atrocious crimes, not having been to her liking.†   (source)
  • He breakfasted en famille but followed his own personal regimen of an infusion of wormwood blossoms for his stomach and a head of garlic that he peeled and ate a clove at a time, chewing each one carefully with bread, to prevent heart failure.†   (source)
  • Jessica sent herself through the quick sense-clearing regimen, began a methodical inspection of the room's perimeter.†   (source)
  • Our friends who were veteran dog owners told us not to rush the obedience regimen.†   (source)
  • He required his pupils to take the following oath: I will follow that system or regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider to be for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.†   (source)
  • The only living thing in the Breedloves' house was the coal stove, which lived independently of everything and everyone, its fire being "out," "banked," or "up" at its own discretion, in spite of the fact that the family fed it and knew all the details of its regimen: sprinkle, do not dump, not too much….†   (source)
  • Farmer sent orders in great detail and devised the drug regimens for every patient, inventing tricks, as he put it, for the most resistant cases.†   (source)
  • With the beginning of the season less than a month away—and Sophia up in New Jersey—Luke stepped up his training regimen.†   (source)
  • I did my usual regimen of stationary running, skipping rope, sit-ups, and fingertip press-ups.†   (source)
  • The field at the community center was fenced, and Luma had no problem running off her players' friends who stopped by after school to heckle them as they submitted to her regimen of running and calisthenics.†   (source)
  • My mom started me on a strict vitamin regimen and refused to let me be alone, even for a few minutes.†   (source)
  • The married copywriters met their secretaries, or the secretaries of other writers, or the tall and lissome secretaries of account executives, white-shod and well-spoken, and went about the tender regimen of their lunchtime love—the nooner, it was called, or the matinee—meeting in the secretaries' snug apartments, striking in their dimensional similarity to the cubicles the writers worked in, only decorated more touchingly and vulnerably, with posters of Madrid on the off-white walls,…†   (source)
  • I had purposely been avoiding spicy foods, as well as fish with high mercury levels, as part of my "what pregnant women shouldn't eat" regimen.†   (source)
  • The other side of the vise was a regimen of draconian "thought control" laws that constrained all civilians.†   (source)
  • The room was spinning a little now "What it means, Lindsay, is that you're going to have to undergo a prolonged regimen of intensive treatment."†   (source)
  • By offering some competition to keep Cedric's edge, the morning's regimen of math and science can funnel his up-atdawn enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • "Looks to me like your drug regimen's kicked in in a big way—"†   (source)
  • At the time of the Piedmont contact, he was treating his problems with his own regimen: a bottle of aspirin a day and some Sterno on top of it.†   (source)
  • The regimen was strict and demanding, the day starting with morning prayers in Holden Chapel at six and ending with evening prayers at five.†   (source)
  • Along the way I also tried other exercise regimens too.†   (source)
  • For example, he would exercise vigorously in the early mornings, an intense regimen of calisthenics and stretches that would challenge a seasoned drill sergeant.†   (source)
  • After drying ourselves, the brunette, Katya and Marie guided us through a series of beauty regimens— a massage, manicure, pedicure, and facial.†   (source)
  • But they follow a regimen, darling, because if they don't, they get poor service reports, which is tantamount to a fate worse than dismissal — which rarely happens — because it means no advancement, limbo.†   (source)
  • Walk to the room. take down the chart, check the information provided by nurses who, generally, had been doing this longer than Dixie, from many of whom she'd learned most of her skills, walk in, say hi, double-check the basic diagnostic information, write a treatment regimen, walk to the next examination room.†   (source)
  • While not absolutely conclusive as far as wolves were concerned, evidence that my metabolic functions remained unimpaired under a mouse regimen would strongly indicate that wolves, too, could survive and function normally on the same diet.†   (source)
  • Its ordered regimen had exploded with the first missile.†   (source)
  • The regimen I adopt shall be for the benefit of mankind according to my ability and judgment, and not for hurt or wrong.†   (source)
  • His exercise regimen faltered and fell apart, with his cheek against the surly basement floor.   (source)
  • As part of his training regimen for the climb, he immersed himself in bathtubs filled with ice.   (source)
  • He watched the swimmers train, studying their strokes and regimen, longing to be part of it himself.†   (source)
  • Peeta and I excel under the new regimen, though.†   (source)
  • Farmer had devised the regimen for Christian.†   (source)
  • He got Serena to obtain the regimen from her contacts at Mass General.†   (source)
  • He followed no formulas, no regimens, no superstitious rituals.†   (source)
  • Deo modified his regimen, but only by eating more during the evening meals with Nancy and Charlie.†   (source)
  • I did a shortened version of my usual exercise regimen, washed, and ate breakfast.†   (source)
  • And then after the Combine, back to my regimen—more lifting, more running, more throwing.†   (source)
  • Trying to sound upbeat, I walked her through my regimen.†   (source)
  • THE REGIMEN FOR each of those early practices was the same.†   (source)
  • I had to take the eating easy, because my exercise regimen declined considerably with my travel.†   (source)
  • This regimen continued for many months, occasionally years, until the Riders were deemed responsible enough to handle magic.†   (source)
  • The mind-calming Bene Gesserit regimen his mother had taught him kept him poised, ready to expand any opportunity.†   (source)
  • The doctor talked to her about putting him on a regimen of arthritis medications, and a worker helped Jenny lift him into the minivan.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, when the new regimen was put into practice that evening, the Boyarsky's customers were shocked to find a clerk sitting at a little desk behind the maitre d's podium.†   (source)
  • Part of preparation for tithing is a monthlong regimen of mental and physical assessments even before one's tithing party, so all the hard work is done at home, before they get here.†   (source)
  • She went through the quick regimen of calmness — the two deep breaths, the ritual thought, then: "When I assign rooms, is there anything special I should reserve for you?"†   (source)
  • Indeed, soon afterward the doctors would place the girl on Farmer's regimen, and she would begin to recover, suffering few side effects.†   (source)
  • The system couldn't do another regimen, because of the fear they would be admitting a bigger problem."†   (source)
  • The child, the doctor's daughter, had gone through dots and was now several months into the retreatment regimen.†   (source)
  • The Brigham doctors put Jack on a standard regimen of four first-line tb drugs, a virtually foolproof cure in most locales.†   (source)
  • Or they could trust the lab work, abandon the dots retreatment regimen, and begin giving her Farmer's own favorite pediatric regimen of second-line drugs.†   (source)
  • So when a patient failed standard therapy, it seemed reasonable to try again, by merely strengthening the regimen a little and making sure all the doses were taken.†   (source)
  • Farmer proposed an "empiric" regimen—a regimen based on his best guesses—which consisted of high-dose ethambutol and four second-line drugs, including a fluoroquinolone.†   (source)
  • One hundred thousand of that country's prison inmates had active tb, Goldfarb said, and most if not all were being treated with the worst possible regimen—with a single drug—because the government hadn't come up with the money to buy more.†   (source)
  • Jaime had already tried to reason with his countrymen, the Peruvian tb authorities, asking that they let Socios have patients earlier, at least once the first round of dots had failed and before patients went through the standard retreatment regimen.†   (source)
  • When a patient didn't get better on standard therapy, a doctor should suspect that the tb was impervious to some drugs in the regimen and should find out which drugs as quickly as possible and substitute others.†   (source)
  • Brom bypassed the normal training regimen and ignored the subtleties of gramarye to ensure that you had the skills you needed to remain alive.†   (source)
  • Alan told him he was just looking around, to plan his regimen, he said earnestly, and so was allowed to walk in wearing his business attire.†   (source)
  • Entrusted to assistant trainer James Fitzsimmons, Jr., while Sunny Jim manned the helm on the more precocious horses, Seabiscuit began a regimen of incredibly rigorous campaigning.†   (source)
  • I too must distort the regimen in order to focus on the skills that you will likely require in the coming battles.†   (source)
  • Up to thirty percent of patients respond to a regimen of biweekly transfusions of packed red blood cells.†   (source)
  • Linked as he was to her mind, Eragon got to watch as Glaedr put her through an exercise regimen every bit as strenuous as his.†   (source)
  • One morning at Santa Anita, Howard pushed Smith hard to take a course with Seabiscuit that Smith was not prepared to take, apparently to rush his very conservative training regimen.†   (source)
  • Every day, he lingered by the rails to watch Seabiscuit's peculiar regimens, following his movements without comment, then returned to War Admiral.†   (source)
  • That was all I had asked for as a Christmas present, and it was a gift that allowed me to change and improve my training regimen.†   (source)
  • By that time, too, Robby was in his junior year of football in college, and he started sending me his Carson-Newman College workout books and regimen that the team used.†   (source)
  • During the week that preceded the making of the packet she observed a strict regimen and cultivated the city assiduously for material.†   (source)
  • Drug-taking and deep-breathing exercises--it could not have seemed a very death-defying regimen; yet the fact remains that when the last of the old monks died, in 1794, Perrault himself was still living.†   (source)
  • Then began an even harder course of training for the girl, a regimen that resembled more the preparation for an acrobat.†   (source)
  • Conway learned that during his first five years he would live a normal life, without any special regimen; this was always done, as Chang said, "to enable the body to accustom itself to the altitude, and also to give time for the dispersal of mental and emotional regrets."†   (source)
  • The cure regimen—the exalted and inviolable rules.†   (source)
  • I cannot persuade you to adopt my regimen, Vincy?†   (source)
  • And when Hans Castorp objected that he assumed a lowered room temperature was part of the regimen for the cure and presumably a way of keeping the patients from getting too spoiled, Settembrini responded with fierce scorn.†   (source)
  • And Joachim was always trying to urge an early departure so as not to cut short his evening rest cure, as he said, and perhaps for other reasons of regimen, which he did not go into but which Hans Castorp guessed and respected.†   (source)
  • The central heating was turned on, and while Joachim put his fur-lined sleeping bag to good use and held to the regimen of rest cure, Hans Castorp took refuge in his room; he dragged a chair over to the warm radiator and, shaking his head, peered out into the monstrous state of affairs.†   (source)
  • It was just after dinner and they had all been lying in the rest cure for twenty minutes or so, when the sun abruptly hid itself, ugly peat-brown clouds moved in from over the ridges to the southeast, and a wind bearing cold, alien air that went to your bones and seemed to have come from unknown regions of ice suddenly swept down through the valley, setting the temperature plunging and inaugurating a whole new regimen.†   (source)
  • I say nothing against Mr. Stelling's theory; if we are to have one regimen for all minds, his seems to me as good as any other.†   (source)
  • They had the complexion of wealth—that clear complexion that is heightened by the pallor of porcelain, the shimmer of satin, the veneer of old furniture, and that an ordered regimen of exquisite nurture maintains at its best.†   (source)
  • Hygeia herself would have fallen sick under such a regimen; and how much more this poor old nervous victim?†   (source)
  • The business hours, allowing for intervals of invalid regimen of oysters and partridges, during which Clennam refreshed himself with a walk, were from ten to six for about a fortnight.†   (source)
  • His digestion was weak and he lived chiefly on Graham bread and hominy—a regimen to which he was so much attached that his tour seemed to him destined to be blighted when, on landing on the Continent, he found that these delicacies did not flourish under the table d'hote system.†   (source)
  • "Because of the change of regimen," continued the chemist, "and of the perturbation that results therefrom in the whole system.†   (source)
  • Sorry, it's part of my new exercise regimen. crossing eyes, bobbing head, strutting†   (source)
  • To this I was silent out of partiality to my own kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true seeds of spleen, which only seizes on the lazy, the luxurious, and the rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same regimen, I would undertake for the cure.†   (source)
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