Word: extras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second half appeared to start off on in the Crimson's favor when DeVries recorded his second goal of the day three minutes in. However, the tide soon began to turn. Dartmouth scored the next four goals, including one in an extra-man opportunity...
DEFLATE THE FATTEST PILLOWS. Social Security was meant to keep the elderly from falling into poverty when they could no longer work, not to plump up an extra cushion under the already well off. Investment banker Peter Peterson proposes paying full Social Security benefits only to those whose income from other sources is $35,000 a year or less. Payments to the better off would be reduced on a sliding scale starting at 7.5%; those with outside income of $185,000 or more would receive only 15% of the Social Security pension that they would qualify for without such...
...already computer-modeled their crime. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks Internet hate groups, discovered last week in its archives a copy of Harris' website with a version of the bloody shoot-'em-up video game Doom he had customized. In Harris' version there are two shooters, each with extra weapons and unlimited ammunition, and the people they encounter can't fight back. When Harris and Klebold went into Columbine on April 20, says an Internet investigator associated with the Wiesenthal Center, "they were playing out their game in God mode...
...year fixed-rate jumbo goes for about 7.08%--not that much more than the smaller "conforming" loan at 6.9%. Last October, though, jumbo borrowers had to pony up an average 7.22% when nonjumbo borrowers were paying only 6.76%, a punishing difference. On a $250,000 loan, that extra interest cost comes to $77.20 a month, or $27,792.13 over the life of the loan...
Another reason to go slow: your intestines need a week or two to adjust to the extra fiber. Drink plenty of water to keep your bowels from getting blocked. "You don't have to eat all bran all the time," says Susan Roberts, professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Boston. "But you should try to get some fiber at every meal...