Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Firefighters on the scene said they speculated the fire was caused by buildup of ashes in CPK's chimney...
...swift U.S. buildup by Toyota and rivals like Honda has revitalized whole communities. A University of Kentucky study credits Toyota's Georgetown presence with creating 22,000 jobs in the state (the plant itself employs 6,500) and adding $1.5 billion to the state's economy during its eight years in operation. Soaring property-tax rolls have enabled Georgetown to build new police and fire stations and community-care facilities. In Princeton property values are taking...
...long drive into the desert. They were on a "combat time line," moving straight into battle position as if Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard troops were really advancing. "We are here to send a signal, and that signal is 'We are ready,'" said Colonel Robert C. Pollard. With its buildup in Kuwait last week, the U.S. very visibly made its latest move in the now-take-that contest with Iraq that has rattled nerves throughout the Persian Gulf and left American allies wondering who is winning what...
Paul Hendrickson's The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (Knopf; 427 pages; $30) portrays the chief operating officer of the Vietnam buildup as a "tragically split man." Central to this view are McNamara's unsatisfactory answers to questions that have dogged him since he left the Pentagon on Feb. 19, 1968: Why did he choose to remain in office more than two years after he was telling colleagues the war was futile? And why did he continue to rationalize publicly a conflict he privately did not believe...
...marking the end of a woman's childbearing years, results in her body's virtually shutting down production of the hormone estrogen, with attendant hot flashes, irritability and weight gain. Post-menopausal women are also at higher risk for heart disease and osteoporosis (among other things, estrogen prevents the buildup of plaque in blood vessels and protects bone from thinning). On the plus side, the drop in estrogen reduces a woman's risk of developing breast cancer. Estrogen-replacement therapy--whether by pill, skin patch, above, or injection--provides just enough estrogen to prevent the unpleasant symptoms of menopause while...