Word: dose
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Each of these enterprises has cut the nonsense and benefited from a dose of financial discipline, while the royals have continued to traffic in nonsense and avoid all forms of discipline, especially marital. Their principal activities seem to be making hairdresser appointments, divorcing and shooting grouse. The future CEO of the bunch, Prince Charles, is Goofy already, plus he's got Mickey's ears...
...come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce a debilitating stalemate. The xenophobic far right could also make gains. Most worrisome...
...estate from going to a greedy and conniving relative. Sergeant Meryll sets Fairfax free and orchestrates a totally unbelievable switcheroo which involves Fairfax posing as Phoebe's brother and taking up his position as a Yeoman of the Guard, allowing him to roam freely without suspicion. in a healthy dose of expletives, tacky clothes, a dangerous audience and it's as if you're in 16th-century Ricki Lake or Rolanda territory. But the scenario actually belongs to the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players' fall contribution to the Agassiz stage, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...Harvard women's hockey team opens its Ivy League and ECAC seasons this weekend with a double dose of league competition. Today, the Crimson (2-1-0, 0-0-0 Ivy) faces off at home against last year's Ivy League champion, Princeton (1-2-0, 0-0-0), and tomorrow it completes the H-Y-P weekend against perennial archrival, Yale...
...onslaught of acid blockers, the lower-priced and faster-acting antacids will almost certainly maintain a respectable market share. Tums, for example, costs less than 3¢ a tablet. That compares with more than 40¢ for a one-a-day Pepcid AC tablet or a Tagamet HB two-tablet dose, although both products currently offer substantial rebates. Still, booming sales of the new acid blockers seem to show that heartburn sufferers are not troubled by sticker shock. At a Duane Reade drugstore in Manhattan, Darlene Jackson, 35, picked up a box of Tagamet HB and noted the higher price but decided...