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Word: beate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's why: Beta-blockers counteract the body's fight-or-flight reactions to stress. More specifically, the drugs block the so-called beta-adrenergic receptors--molecules, found in muscles, that respond to surges of adrenaline. The beta-blockers thus relax the heart, causing it to beat more slowly. This seems like the last thing you would want to do for someone whose heart isn't pumping much blood in the first place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relax That Heart | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...your grader. (Unless he is of the Wheatstone Bridge-double differential CH3C6H2(NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs, automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

...Tonight was a huge win," Tomassoni said. "Weproved that we can not just play with one of thebest team's in hockey, but beat them. It's too badwe have to stop playing...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Hockey Upsets No. 6 B.C. | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

...victory in last year?s regional elections, which were fought over such bread-and-butter issues as the country?s onion shortage. ?By projecting Sonia as a Christian and implying that there?s a threat to Hindus from conversions, they?re trying to create an issue with which to beat Congress,? says Rahman. Still, that?s unlikely to impress voters unless there?s an onion in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Christians Under Fire | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Reno will go down in history as the attorney general who actually approved the appointment of more independent counsels than any other: seven, to investigate various administration figures. Moreover, one of those independent counsels, Kenneth Starr, has become the first one to trigger the impeachment trial of a president. Beat that, William Wirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reno's Record | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

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