Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Koop-Kessler commission is a provision forbidding a nicotine ban for 12 years and requiring a lengthy court hearing if the agency even wants to restrict the levels of nicotine. The commission also called for stiffer fines against tobacco companies if teenage smoking does not start to drop within two years, instead of the five-year timeframe the settlement proposes...
...experience deceleration forces of 20 Gs. The vehicle's cork-and-silicon aeroshell should absorb most of this body blow. Both a parachute and a retrorocket will slow its plunge, and an array of airbags will inflate to cushion the shock of landing. And finally, the spacecraft will simply drop to the surface, striking the ground like a beach ball and rolling to a stop in the ancient floodplain...
Estrogen users with family histories of breast cancer, on the other hand, did better than many might have expected, scoring a 35% drop in overall mortality. There could be many reasons for this, says Grodstein. For one thing, heart attacks and strokes are more likely to be immediately lethal, so preventing them adds up to longer survival. For another, women on hormone therapy tend to be more closely monitored; their cancers are likely to be detected earlier...
FERTILE FINDINGS When a woman's energy stores are low--which can result from dieting or exercising too much--levels of the hormone leptin start to fall, which may cause a drop in reproductive hormones. So before rushing to a fertility expert, try eating more and exercising less...
...ability to work around the clock, along with his childhood obsession with games like Pac-Man and his Bill Gatesian decision to drop out of college to write software, are traits Romero shares with many top-notch programmers. He met Hall and the two Carmacks at a company called Soft Disk in Shreveport, La., in 1989, and within two years the four had launched id, settling by 1992 in a Dallas suburb called Mesquite...