Word: boning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Through a program devised by its store owners, the company has helped establish 153 Ronald McDonald Houses, named for the chain's trademark clown, where families of seriously ill children can stay while the child is undergoing extensive medical treatment, such as chemotherapy or bone-marrow transplants. Each house serves an average of 15 families who pay from $5 to $15 a night, if they can afford it. The local projects are supported by local fund drives, and all the money collected goes directly to the houses; McDonald's pays all administrative costs of the program, which extends to Canada...
...unremitting praise of virtually everything piscan has had its effect. Over the past 30 years, as American beef consumption has sunk, T-bone and porterhouse have given way to steaks of salmon, swordfish and tuna. Overall U.S. fish consumption is up 50% since 1960 and nearly 25% in the past 10 years alone...
...satisfy the fired-up volunteers who have already collected enough signatures to place him on the ballot in at least 16 states. He has been vague, to say the least, in specifying how he would go about setting things right in Washington. Perot says he needs time to bone up on the issues with a newly assembled team of experts...
...didn't say Counter was an anti Semite, but we came damn close. According to everyone who has worked with the man, there isn't an anti-Semitic bone in his body...
...KNEW WHY EIGHT PATIENTS ENTERED NEW England hospitals with vitamin D overdoses, but researchers wanted to find out. Too little of this crucial vitamin can lead to bone weakness and rickets, the deforming of bones in growing children. That's why D, found naturally in only a few foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead...