Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like smoking, oral contraceptive use might influence blood coagulation, a factor in heart disease, Stampfer said. The contraceptives tend to compound the affects of smoking, a factor in about half of all heart disease cases in women, he said...
...encounter came midway through an extraordinary airborne conversation with Arafat that appears in this week's Interview section. Tracking down the P.L.O. leader took months of careful plotting. Gart finally caught up with Arafat at his heavily guarded compound four miles from the center of Baghdad. While he had interviewed Arafat on nine previous occasions, none had prepared Gart for the three-day, eight-hour talkathon that followed. Nor was he ready for the late-night meal at Arafat's table that featured five different preparations of lamb or the motorcade that careered through Baghdad at 80 m.p.h. Says Gart...
...Seitz, now president of O.M. Scott & Sons of Marysville, Ohio. "There was no great push for excellence." But after Seitz and his fellow managers bought the unit in 1986 for $133 million, they promptly came out with several new products that ITT executives had blocked. Among them: Winterizer, a compound that protects lawns during the winter. ITT management, Seitz says, had feared that Winterizer might sabotage sales of other Scott lawn-care products. But it has become the company's second biggest seller without hurting overall revenues a whit: Scott's sales rose 16% last year, to $187 million...
...crumbling city of 26,000 immigrants and blue-collar workers on Boston Harbor. Even now, with the state offering to pay 90% of the costs, the city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds for a badly needed high school and elementary school. Language and cultural obstacles compound the system's problems: over half of the 3,300 students speak Spanish or Cambodian at home. Faced with sagging test scores and a 17% annual dropout rate, many parents and local leaders seem willing to try anything. "What do we have to lose?" asks school committee chairman Bruce Robinson...
...compound has become Christendom's most lumbering white elephant. Last week an unlikely angel of rescue appeared. He is not a Gospel glad-hander but an Orthodox Jew named Stephen Mernick. The reticent 34-year-old Toronto businessman reportedly underwent intensive religious training and holds rabbinical ordination but has never led a synagogue. Meticulously observant, Mernick attends daily synagogue prayers and declined to visit his South Carolina kingdom last week because it was Simhath Torah, celebrating God's gift...