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From these children thick blood smears were prepared from finger prick and read by a technician unaware of the spleen results.
This is suggested by studies showing a low correspondence between self-reported diagnosis of NRL reactions and positive RAST or skin prick tests for NRL sensitization [ 15 17 18 ] . Because Oregon primarily records claims with lost work time, it is also possible that individuals who may have experienced minor reactions were not included.
When a graduate student on a field trip writes about Kinsey's "prick nibblin tent," Jones suggests that "it is not hard to suspect that oral sex was going on under canvas tops," because "Berland was a man who usually meant what he said."
These--apart (in Britain) from the more infantile words such as dick and prick -- retain the greatest power to offend and are the least used.
The other thing Greenspan's speech signaled is that the Fed is not going to jack up interest rates just to prick a stock-market bubble, imagined or not.