Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...
...everyone was so enthusiastic. Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez called the new proposals "encouraging" but only "very timid steps." Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, warned against looking for a "magic elixir" to solve the crisis. In a speech before a conference on Third World debt in Washington, Volcker explained, "If not well managed, a process of debt reduction clearly could be hazardous to the health of debtors and creditors alike...
...Bush, cutting capital gains is another miracle-grow elixir for the economy: "This will increase revenue, help savings and create new jobs." In a reprise of the dubious less-is-more assumptions that once undergirded Reaganomics, Darman argues that such a tax reduction would yield $4.8 billion in additional revenue in 1990. The logic: grateful investors would churn their portfolios in a frenzy to take advantage of the more generous tax rate. Although there is no consensus, most respected economic models challenge these assumptions. A study by the Congressional Budget Office, for example, puts the annual loss in the first...
...around Cincinnati live some 50 families who in an earlier time of myth and legend might have been accused of drinking from Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth. Yet even in today's pragmatic, scientific world, their arteries do seem to carry an elixir of long life. The members of these families, says investigator Dr. Dennis Sprecher of the University of Cincinnati, "typically live for long periods of time, into their 80s and 90s, with very few instances of heart disease, if indeed they have...
...remains to be seen whether HDL is a life-prolonging elixir or merely a bit player in a metabolic process whose intricate workings are not yet fully understood. The signs so far are encouraging, but the public does not have to wait for all the answers about HDL in order to do something about preventing heart disease. The LDL story, after all, is already clear: the lower the LDL, the lower the risk of heart disease. For most people in the Western world, basic changes in eating habits and life-style can drastically reduce or eliminate the threat of heart...