But once Sarah Palin got a dose of it, they were all over it.
The thing is, when we actually examine the UK health care system we find that a dose of competition does it good.
And we just got injected with a healthy new dose of it.
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One mother featured on the programme was told her son had been prescribed too high a dose of Ritalin and it was to be halved.
Prof Vallis said "it is attracted to DNA damage", where it then delivers a dose of radiation, causing more damage and attracting even more antibodies - it is a "self-amplifying system".
If a patient needed a big dose of muscle relaxant, it can mean more time on a ventilator as those drugs wear off.
If this ends up being the proverbial nail in the coffin for any of these banks it will come with a heavy dose of painful iron because the U.S. government that bailed them out just three years ago may send them back on the path toward failure.
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Considering the modest claims made by the author of the plan, as well as the sharp questioning of even those claims by many eminent economists, it would require a heavy dose of wishful thinking to regard QE2 as a potent remedy for the ills of the real economy.
Bayer might have made a fatal mistake when it decided to release a higher-dose version of Baycol.
Europe badly needed a dose of fiscal discipline, even if it was a case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
The government was given a dose of good news on Monday when it was reported that economic growth picked up in the third quarter, reaching 4.8% on an annualised basis, which was better than expected.
Overall, the report is a healthy dose of reality for NASA. It warns that the agency's goals need to match its budget, and that it needs to internationalise its efforts, in order to make the most of its investments.
It contained a dose of morphine for breakthrough pain or shortness of breath, Ativan for anxiety attacks, Compazine for nausea, Haldol for delirium, Tylenol for fever, and atropine for drying up the upper-airway rattle that people can get in their final hours.
If the World Bank is going to help find solutions to the lingering problems of global poverty and underdevelopment, its next President must be a person that comes to the job with a willingness to experiment and a heavy dose of, dare I say it, humility.
It was fuel to the fire of critics who felt Winner was a brash, sexist oaf, but he insisted it was all done with a hefty dose of irony.
If some chef says to add a given amount of salt and it turns out to be a lethal dose for someone watching the show, I'm covered if the network gets sued and says it's our fault.
Bananas would be a much cheaper alternative, even if it might be difficult to get a precise dose of the active compounds.
"It was a safe dose of a kids' medicine, with side effect of sleepiness, " he says.
S. As mentioned in today's blog, I've killed my Innovation blog and replaced it with a daily dose of Optimism and Inspiration.
The optimistic case for Zetia is that adding it to a low dose of a statin will lower cholesterol as much as a high dose of the statin, but without the muscle-weakening side effects.
However, he said, there's no harm in taking a 200-IU dose of vitamin D because it's difficult to get the recommended daily amount of 600 IUs from food alone for children and adults up to age 70.
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Dr Tonge, who was a family planning doctor before entering politics, also said that some doctors told women the pill was "dangerous" and tried to scare them off it, but she stressed that it was simply a larger dose of the same hormones contained in an ordinary contraceptive pill.
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It seemed like a badly needed dose of honesty on a vital topic.
The most unpleasant thing about the fashion for fun is that it is mixed with a large dose of coercion.
That's bad form -- another dose of hypocrisy in a debate that is already loaded with it.
And it is being sold with a heavy dose of sugar-coated earnestness that many non-Americans may find indigestible.
If lessons learned then had been incorporated into military and political thinking, it would have injected a much needed dose of realism at an early stage.
Alas, such are the powerful entrenched interests in drugmaking that it will take something stronger than a dose of information to calm the current fever over pill-pricing.
And just as the flattered, puffed-up student gets a painful dose of reality after graduation, so the economy gets it when the never-liquidated errors finally bring about the inevitable crash.
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It seemed to show that a lower dose of the drug could work just as well as a higher one in lung cancer, says Roman Perez-Solar of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
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