Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...general, what's above the waist gets bigger; what's below shrinks...
After a White House send-off on Thursday, Oct. 15, Netanyahu and Arafat settled in at Wye. The two men actually didn't know each other well. Nor had Arafat ever met Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner Netanyahu recently named Foreign Minister. The hulking former general showed up two days late, sweeping into dinner, right past Arafat's gesture of welcome, refusing to shake hands or even look at the man he calls a terrorist and murderer. Instead Sharon focused on some Arafat aides with whom he has held talks this year. While he never did shake Arafat's hand...
Some 1999 models shape up as virtual bet-your-company gambles. General Motors has sunk more than $3 billion into its new Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck to appeal to suburbanites who want cargo capacity and a rugged look without any loss of creature comforts. GM put its money under the hood and into the transmission with the aim of creating a quiet ride and responsive handling both on and off the road. To recoup its investment, the company hopes for Silverado sales totaling $14 billion--a sum equal to Microsoft's revenues for all of fiscal 1998--in the next...
Doctors used to think eating disorders were purely psychological. Now they realize there's some wayward biology as well. In a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this month, researchers found abnormal levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter in the brain, in women who had been free of bulimia for at least a year. That may help explain why drugs like Prozac and Zoloft, which affect serotonin, have allowed a lot of bulimics to stop bingeing. Unfortunately, the pills don't work as well for anorexia. Nor do they offer a simple one-stop cure. Health-care workers must...
...Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock at about 35% each are the Establishment heavyweights: Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, the state's attorney general and son of the late Vice President, and his G.O.P. opponent, Norm Coleman, mayor of St. Paul. Now the Body is a supernova in the nation's staid midterm elections...