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Russian press comments from the past week, selected by Le Monde 's Moscow correspondent, included the following: Vremia said, "The horrible descriptions of massacres of Albanian Kosovars in the West are wrong and exaggerated"; New Izvestiya offered, "While the president of the Unites States plays golf, tens of thousands of innocent people are fleeing from the hell unleashed by NATO airplanes"; and Nezavissimaya Gazeta said that NATO was conducting "barbaric bombardments ...
In the current study, we developed and evaluated descriptions of hepatitis C health states and side effects of antiviral therapy.
A familiar example: reasoning that in terms of job duties the sex or gender of the person who passes peanuts on an airplane is unimportant, editors of the Handbook of Nonsexist Language propose flight attendant rather than steward/stewardess and oppose gratuitous regendering of job titles ( female flight attendant ). (A court case notes a male purser and a female stewardess with identical job descriptions, but different salary scales.)
Similarly, Smith et al [ 30], in one of the original hemodynamic descriptions of patients after myocardial infarction, did not identify any patient with a hyperdynamic state.
Morrison thickens the ambiguity by avoiding literal references to history and even physical descriptions that might fix characters in time and space.