Word: gramming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 13 Centrum stop on the Zoo TV tour also served as a birthday celebration for bassist Adam Clayton. In honor of Clayton's birthday, the band toasted him with champagne and led the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday," and a female "bunny-gram" bearing balloons adorned Clayton with bright pink...
Amid complaints of rising crime, Zurich officials last week shut down Needle Park for good. Some users clustered around the central train station, others headed off in search of methadone. With sales suddenly back underground, addicts complained that the price of heroin had doubled overnight to $214 a gram. Healthworkers said efforts to prevent AIDS would be much more difficult...
...roller-coaster career curve is hardly unique. With the exception of a macho-arts maven like Steven Seagal, whose films routinely pick up an easy $40 million, nearly every modern star's box-office graph zigzags as wildly as an Axl Rose delta gram. Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood have dominated movies for a quarter-century, but their latest pictures have played in empty theaters. Robert De Niro, the most admired actor in films, went a decade after The Deer Hunter (1978) without a hit. Then he appeared in three commercial successes: GoodFellas, Awakenings, Backdraft. When Bruce Willis flexed...
Using such calculations for dioxin produced a conclusion that ingesting an infinitesimal amount of the compound each day over a lifetime -- about 0.006 trillionths of a gram per kilogram of body weight (or 0.014 trillionths of an ounce for a 150-lb. man) -- would cause 1 cancer among 1 million people. The contamination at Times Beach was 1,000 times as great as this safety limit...
...with chronic heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, the current manufacturers' labels can be downright dangerous," says Gail Levey, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. People with high blood pressure, for example, should be wary of falling for Stouffer's Lean Cuisine, which proudly boasts "Never more than a gram of sodium" in its print advertisements. While the claim is true, the implication -- that this is a very low-salt product -- is not. Nutritionists normally measure sodium in milligrams (thousandths of a gram), not grams. Several diet delights from Stouffer's contain almost half the amount of sodium allowed daily...