IMF-arranged rescues of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea, that may seem an expensive lozenge.

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Overall, it is designed like an elaborate lozenge rather than a shield, a shape reserved for men.

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It takes just seven seconds for the nicotine released by a lozenge to impact on the brain.

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Strobel hopes it will someday be made into an antifungal throat lozenge and a cream to combat yeast infections.

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"You begin also to get continuous patterns that come from printed Indian textiles, " she says, indicating lozenge-shaped floral motifs.

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His "Dream Displacement" from 1976 employs four film projectors to cast lozenge-shaped red images that go in and out of phase in a loop, like four animated Rothkos.

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Indeed, if I were to describe the sugar, corn syrup and pectin lozenge that, above all others, might conjure Proustian memories of childhood Easters, it would be the purple jelly bean.

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