Word: dammed
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Though the figures from the study simply confirm what was expected, van Dam said that the novelty of the study lay in quantifying the combined effects of healthy lifestyle factors...
...women who adhered to all four lifestyle factors, van Dam and his team estimated the overall risk of death was reduced by 55 percent, in addition to a 44 percent reduced risk of dying from cancer and a 72 percent lower risk from heart disease...
School of Public Health professor Rob M. van Dam, who is the first author of the study, said that he and his colleagues collected data from 77,782 married nurses from across the nation over a span of 24 years...
...like Mrs. Iselin toward Raymond in The Manchurian Candidate). When Chahine behaved well and got festival prizes, Egypt was proud; when he criticized powerful political interests, she sent him to bed without supper. His epic Once Upon a Time on the Nile, about the building of the Aswan Dam, was the first Egyptian-Soviet coproduction, but both sponsors were displeased by the director's cut, demanding reshooting and re-editing. The film, begun in 1968, was not released until...
...applied strategically. In Helmand, that means troops are concentrated in urban areas. In Kajaki, according to Lieut. Colonel Joe O'Sullivan, commander of the 2nd Parachute Regiment, of which Shervington's troops are a part, "the force there at the moment is sufficient to defend the base of the dam and to keep control of the 2.5-mile [4 km] circle of ground there. It is not designed to do any more than that...