Word: guts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saturday, Ohiri Field was as packed as I've ever seen it in my more than two years here at Harvard. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people watched the women's and men's soccer teams try to win the Ivy League championship, and they saw two teeth-gnashing, gut-wrenching, tear-jerking games...
...average citizen by taking on the special interests and eliminating tax loopholes and spending giveaways that favor the few while hurting growth." Shapiro has identified 65 such preferences. "Wipe them out entirely," he says, "and you save $225 billion over five years." Among the programs Shapiro would gut are those that defray airlines' costs to expand terminals and payments to farmers whose commodities sell below set prices. To ensure that Congress doesn't pick and choose -- a process in which the strongest special interests would see their favored scams survive -- Shapiro wants a bipartisan commission whose recommendations Congress would have...
...gut has an immune response which almost never rejects proteins," said Weiner. "From that fact, we postulated that if a person was fed the protein which his immune system was attacking, the body would acquire a tolerance to the protein and thereby lessen the attack...
...form of vaccination via the gut," he said...
...popularly referred to, is not about receiving credit simply for tutoring poor kids from the inner-city or for spending a couple of hours kicking a soccer ball around at a nearby elementary school. Unfortunately, the popular perception of service-learning is exactly that: academic course credit for easy "gut" work done through community service...