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[ 17 18 19 ] Equally important, unrelieved pain can have a devastating psychological effect on the individual and family [ 20 ] . As there is no reason to delay the use of analgesics, [ 16 ] initiate analgesic interventions while completing investigations and providing therapies directed against the cause of the pain (eg, radiation for a neoplasm).
The commission's October 1997 report, Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures, described the potentially devastating implications of poor information security from a national perspective.
What made Bradley's response on this point especially devastating was his accompanying hand gesture, undoubtedly unconscious but perilously close to the universal symbol for "pull it a little harder."
But by the end of the century cotton had fallen victim to a devastating plague of chenille bugs and exhaustion of the weak soil.
In October 1997, the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection described the potentially devastating implications of poor information security from a broader perspective in its report entitled Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures.