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Delirium, a syndrome associated with long hospital stays and high rates of morbidity and mortality [ 10], is a sign of deterioration in the homeostasis and physical status of the patient [ 17].
Sam Raimi's dark morality fable impresses the critics: It's a "rivetingly accomplished crime thriller" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). As two brothers who happen on millions of dollars in a plane that's crashed into a snow bank, Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton turn in performances that "can be described only as flawless" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The reviewers have some reservations: The moral deterioration of the characters is hard to watch, and the inevitability of the plot's outcome can be stifling.
Some blame the Clinton administration's blind support of Boris Yeltsin and International Monetary Fund loans or America's insistence on economic "shock therapy" for Russia's deterioration.
1974, 25th ed.: A generic designation for mental deterioration; called also aphrenia, aphronesia, and athymia.
The paper went on, "He would not only greatly increase his international standing, but the achievement of any peace, however fragile, in the Balkans would slow the deterioration of Russia's political situation at home."