Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precise odds, based on actuarial tables and clinical data stored away in the computer's memory banks, were just a fraction above those for the average white woman in the 30-to-34-year age group. Why was this healthy, five-times-a-week tennis and racquet ball enthusiast a slightly higher risk? Because, explained the computer, she sometimes drank, smoked cigarettes and, most risky of all, did not always buckle up her seat belt while driving. "If you make all the possible reductions in your risk factors," she was told, "you will then have the same risk...
...personae is a trademark of O'Nolan's literary career--in At Swim, as in O'Nolan's life, there is a writer who creates a writer who creates a writer. But in The Poor Mouth the technique has a specific function: to carry the Gaeligore and/na Gopaleen enthusiast a step away from the Irish Times and from a facile understanding of "Gaelic." The perceptions of Corkadoragha become the enveloping reality; an existence composed largely of "spuds," "spirits," "rain," "eternity" and "true Gaelic misery...
...office, has been designed to attract "the more sophisticated traveler, anxious to try a new experience, something more casual." The variety is unending. New York City's American Museum of Natural History sponsors scientific tours of the Nile, the Black Sea and African game parks. Nature Enthusiast Hanns Ebensten leads a springtime voyage to the arctic ice floes to watch seals giving birth. The Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, of Cambridge, Mass., mounts crash expeditions to disasters like the volcanic explosion of Heimaey Island off Iceland...
...Louisiana law firm became suspicious when he claimed in an interview to be the great grandnephew of Czar Nicholas of Russia. He also said he was an avid skin diver, but bared his ignorance about the sport when one of the law firm's partners, a scuba enthusiast, asked him about...
...Sales were up 3%, to $864 million. In February Genesco was able to market a $70 million bond issue that will enable it to get past the November deadline for repaying much of its long-term debt. Says Jarman, 44, a former naval reserve pilot and hot-air balloon enthusiast who salts his conversation with aviation lingo: "We're committed to takeoff...