Word: frequently
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...hospitalized more often for bronchitis and pneumonia than babies in nonsmoking households. Furthermore, the Surgeon General warned that the risk of involuntary smoking may not be eliminated by separating nonsmokers from smokers within the same air space, a revelation that will certainly come as no surprise to nonsmoking frequent flyers or restaurant patrons who are seated near smoking sections...
...latest moves is that they continue to deny white South Africans the opportunity to see what is happening to their country before it is too late. The only evidence whites have of the increasing level of violence and desperation in their country are the bombings that have become more frequent in recent months precisely because resistance groups have found no other way to influence the white population. If the South African government is successful in its attempt to build a wall around the revolution in its midst, it will have also dug the grave of that country's white minority...
...practice anyway." Personally opposed to practice, he ridicules the Bears' lack of a heated facility and their habit of shuttling to Champaign-Urbana or Suwanee, Ga. "If you want to be a Bear," he likes to say, "it's a good idea to get into the frequent-flyer program...
...evidence of our preoccupation is everywhere: in the physical fitness boom, in every magazine and television program, in our perpetual dieting, in our increasingly frequent trips to the doctors and in the rising costs of medical care. Everyone is taking up jogging, aerobics and isometrics. An estimated 57 million Americans participate regularly in physical fitness programs and the sporting goods industry is a $12.3 billion per year economic juggernaut...
...deals-with-terrorists policy. He has been in charge of Operation Staunch, an Administration effort to persuade both friends and adversaries not to sell arms to Iran. He has pushed that effort with deep personal conviction, going so far as to urge Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze during their frequent meetings to try to reduce arms sales to Iran by countries allied to Moscow. He had little effect, however. North Korea, a Soviet ally, has been among Iran's biggest sources of weapons. In addition, whether Shultz tried and failed to stop the U.S.-sanctioned shipment of arms to Iran...