Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only describing an Israeli Border Policeman violently confronting a Palestinian youth, the caption or photograph does not capture the incident in its totality. It gives the impression that this was an unprovoked act of Israeli-initiated aggression and ignores the presence of the belligerent mob that threatened an apartment compound housing Israeli Jews...
...does the evidence of hypericum's efficacy have real scientific validity? To some extent it does. Last year, for example, the British Medical Journal published a review of 23 clinical trials that attempted to measure the compound's therapeutic potential. Many of these trials indicated that patients on hypericum showed more improvement than patients treated with placebos. The studies, however, were small (most involved only a few dozen patients) and relatively short term (the longest lasted no more than eight weeks...
Flavored with Scandinavian touches sure to warm the heart of any hobby linguist, the Doktor's lyrics reek of appealingly awkward translation: we see the roots of "Holiday" in a two-word compound, as well as the enclitic "yes" or "no" tacked on at the end of a sentence for emphasis ("You can't look back, no, no/You must look forward...
...they just lost that extra poundage, the public perception of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich seems to have been unaffected by their weight loss. Clinton is still popular. Gingrich is still unpopular. As another American President once said, "Life is unfair." That President, of course, had his own vacation compound on the Cape and was slim to begin with...
...feverish enthusiasm fired by the glee of making the right bets and the crunching agony of picking a loser. In the course of a day's trading, the firm will be in and out of 50 stocks, betting millions on tiny ticks of the tape. Cramer, whose 22% compound annual return over nine years marks him as a winning investor, is perhaps an even greater show. He spends most of the trading session jumping up and down out of a very worn chair, shouting orders at the calm traders who surround him. Says Cramer, who abandoned the security of Goldman...