Word: dependance
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...speed metaboliusm, and fenfluramine, which may boost serotonin levels, improved an obese person's chances of losing weight. Of the 120 people in the study, those who took the drugs achieved an average 16% weight loss over eight months, compared with a 5% loss for those who had to depend on diet and exercise alone. By the end of the trail, nearly all participatnts had added back some of the lost weight, but those who were part of the drug-treatment group had regianed fewer poiunds. More research is needed to identify possible side effects...
This effect would also undermine unit cohesion. According to military experts the distrust and anxiety homosexuals would create would make it difficult for a unit to act as a team in a combat situation. Individual soldiers would not feel they could always depend on their homosexual counterparts in dangerous situations. These soldiers would be less willing to take the risks necessary to succeed in combat. As a result, American soldiers could die needlessly, helpless guinea pigs in a social experiment gone wrong...
...meanwhile, convened their own summit in Essen, Germany, to announce plans to open their trading bloc gradually to the former Soviet satellites of Eastern Europe. The move mirrors events on the other side of the Atlantic: If the all-American trade accord goes through, the U.S. is expected to depend far more on South America than on Europe or Japan in the next century...
...staff's desire to attack "free-loaders" who exploit the loop-holes of rent control, it ignores the fact that elderly residents, artists and students (including me) depend on rent control for their housing in Cambridge...
Rudenstine's decision, the gist of which is unknown at this time, will likely not affect admissions material distributed to early action applicants in December. Whether information on ROTC will appear in admission letters will "depend entirely on the timing," according to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons...