Word: buildups
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These supplements are supposed to work by increasing thermogenesis--that is, by converting more of the food you eat into heat before it can be stored as fat. Being able to do this safely would, of course, be a welcome way to avoid the buildup of fat and keep off extra pounds. But there are few if any studies in the scientific literature showing that these products can do this effectively or safely. Even so, thanks to a marketing blitz, the supplements have become a multibillion-dollar industry...
...late '90s, Peterman's expansion plans got out of control. His catalogs bulged with more than 100 pages--up from an initial seven a decade earlier. He added 10 J. Peterman stores in 1998. His five-year business plan called for 70 by 2002, the buildup topped with an IPO. "I took my eye off the brand focus and put it on rapid retail expansion," he recalls. "That was my mistake...
...Honoraries were not alone in adapting the Kennedy record to changing political fashions. Hailed as a hero by liberals, Jack was also embraced by Reagan Republicans, who cited his ardent anticommunism and defense buildup as proof that he was one of them. And this year, during the debates over President Bush's tax cut, a conservative group ran radio ads featuring a tape of President Kennedy promoting his tax cut. Jack had become a Bushie. Ted Kennedy's office issued an outraged rebuttal, signed by Caroline and the Senator...
Such political handicapping will increase if the Vice President makes additional trips--planned or not--to the hospital. There's a risk that the coronary artery that was propped open with a stent in November and then cleared of a buildup of tissue in March, could become blocked again. And there's also a remote possibility that if the defibrillator is repeatedly activated, doctors will opt to destroy the troublesome section of scar tissue that's throwing off Cheney's heart rhythm. That would require yet another trip to the hospital and another round of spin doctoring. But if last...
...chest to accommodate the grapefruit-size titanium-and-plastic device. Both his original heart's pumping chambers had failed, as had all standard heart therapies. He had been rejected for a heart transplant because he also had diabetes, kidney failure and he was drowning internally from pulmonary edema, a buildup of fluid in the lungs that occurs in heart failure. He had an 80 percent chance of dying within 30 days...