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Several small trials of STIs in chronically infected patients were carried out [4], buoyed by the reasonable desire of patients for respite from the unpleasant side effects of the drugs.
With your gift of sharing, we can: provide needed home care services to the most, give emergency respite to families of children at risk for neglect or abuse, help establish a "Seniors to Seniors" program to provide companionship and homemaker services to homebound citizens.
Instead of pressing forward as planned with currency union, the organization should take a respite until popular trust returns.
Unfortunately, when the henequen bubble burst in the 1930s with the advent of synthetic fibers, the peninsula fell into an economic decline from which there seemed to be little hope of respite.
Grass' sarcasm is a welcome respite from the heavy-handed literalism of so much contemporary Holocaust narrative, from the 1979 television series Holocaust (another mass catalyst for German self-awareness) to Schindler's List to the odious Jakob the Liar . And yet, for all of Grass' rage at Germany's crimes, the fact that The Tin Drum rarely names those crimes or explores their existence, and seems so focused on the souls of the Germans, with little empathy to spare for their victims, makes the book feel more like a step on the way to something than like the thing itself--whether that thing be a more moral or simply a greater work of literature.