Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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POISON APPLE: A BAD DIET FOR CEOS...
...latest in a series of setbacks for the new generation of diet pills. They were initially seen as an improvement over the old "speed"-based pills because they were nonaddictive and worked more subtly, stimulating production of the brain chemical serotonin, which is associated with feelings of satisfaction and satiety. But earlier this year neuroscientists complained that the FDA was not being forceful enough in pushing for follow-up studies on another serotonin-type diet pill, Redux, which is known to cause brain damage in rats. The FDA approved Redux last summer, despite its known problems, because it determined that...
...repair work on a leaky heart valve. When they opened up her heart, surgeons noticed that the valve was white and shiny, suggesting some sort of drug reaction. The drugs she had been taking, it turned out, were fen/phen, the appetite suppressants fenfluramine and phentermine that have become the diet pills of choice among weight-conscious Americans...
...bite is to politics what the aphorism is to exposition: the art of saying much with little. Yet the high priests of the press denounce the sound bite, staple of the 30-second political ad, as a degradation of political discourse. They insist that we be fed a sturdier diet of five- and 10- and 30-minute speeches to elevate our sensibilities...
...kitchen to the parliament floor; in Tokyo. As founder of the Housewives Association, Oku gave quality control new meaning by rallying against defective matches and other shoddy goods. Her exactitude, and her efforts on behalf of workingwomen, won her loyal support: in 1947 she was elected to the Diet...