Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prevent the weight gain and inevitable loopy section comments by getting the medically recommended seven to nine hours of slumber. Take the doctor s orders and extend the sleep awareness festivities...
...result, MP3s are an easy way for the typical Internet user to gain free access to their favorite music. Scores of Internet sites offer their visitors the opportunity to download free MP3 players, and thousands more make a wide range of current recordings available...
...That means partners are given equal amounts of all the stocks in the fund. It's a nifty way to launder, say, 50,000 shares of General Motors into about 500 shares each of 100 different companies without having to sell and pay an immediate tax on the capital gain...
...before you say, "Oh, that will never work!" consider the following. Two studies out in the past two weeks show just how important it is to adopt good eating habits early in life. One study published in Circulation found that children who gain a lot of weight as youngsters develop more risk factors for heart disease as adults. The other study, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that, as a group, black and Hispanic children eat significantly more fat than their white counterparts, which may help explain why heart disease is more prevalent among minority groups. Both...
...presents the findings of his 37-culture study of male and female mate preferences and discusses the evolutionary origins and behavioral consequences of what he finds. A section titled "The Hidden Side of Women's Short-Term Sexuality," which elaborates on such topics as what women stand to gain from "casual sex as one strategy within a flexible sexual repertoire," gives the lie to Ehrenreich's claim that evolutionary psychologists have been "fooled" into believing myths of female chastity. Ehrenreich might be more comfortable in a debate between polarized caricatures of actual positions, but surely this is the kind...