Word: butter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole milk. No butter. No fatty meats. Fewer eggs. That has been the gospel of the healthy heart for nearly a quarter-century, and millions have heeded its teachings. Yet each time a believer resolutely pushed away his plate, there was the niggling doubt, or at least the hope, that perhaps the skeptics were right: there was only circumstantial evidence that abstaining from cholesterol-rich food actually protected the heart. No longer. The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute last week released the findings of a $150 million study tracking the incidence of heart disease in 3,806 men over...
Once the catheter is in place, the laser is carefully aimed and fired at the obstruction. The lumps of fat "melt like butter," says Lee. The debris is swept up through a vacuum tube. The so-called laserscope has been tested on animals, and Lee hopes to begin trials involving humans within six months...
...acted like a dustbin lid." There are two collaborations with Michael Jackson, the wonder boy of mainstream soul, that sound peppy only by comparison with the rest of the record, which may be remembered as the album that asked (in Keep Under Cover) the question "What good is butter if you haven't got bread?/ What good is art when it hurts your head?" No headaches here...
...measures announced in February 1982. Since then, Poland's foreign debt has remained at $26 billion, while the economy as a whole has stagnated. The Polish standard of living, many economists agree, has dropped by about 25%. Poles were particularly outraged by the government's announcement that butter would be rationed. The move came barely a month after officials had given public assurances that no such plan was being considered. Thousands of housewives quickly stormed shops to squabble over the blocks of butter that were still available, scuffling with shopkeepers and shouting abuse at passing militia patrols...
Though the butter rationing was apparently unrelated to the new price increases, the net effect of the moves was to put Poles in a rancid mood. Calls to the hot lines to register preferences among the three plans were trickling in last week at the rate of only ten an hour, mainly because some callers spent up to 30 minutes asking questions. Not all the inquiries were polite: some calls have consisted of nothing but a string of obscenities...