Word: half
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outs preserved Harvard's three-run comeback in the previous half-inning, when freshman designated hitter Faiz Shakir drove in the tying and championship-winning runs on a single to left field with the bases loaded...
Beyond that, orlistat isn't dramatically effective by itself. All the patients in the double-blind study went on strict eating regimens and exercise programs. Half of them were given orlistat, and half got an inert placebo. While those in the orlistat group lost an average of 10% of their initial weight after six months, the folks on the sugar pills lost nearly as much--a not inconsiderable...
...find it coincidental that I was on the air for a year and a half, and my real name is Vicki, and there appeared a character named Vicki dressed like my twin on a new show. They basically copied our set, and there's all the characters with their names different...
...leader at Yalta in February 1945, Joseph Stalin said, "I can think of no other instance in history where the future of the world depended on the courage of one man." Without that one man, whose abhorrence of tyranny was matched by his contempt for its appeasers, the second half of the century would have become a Nazi-dominated nightmare. That the world witnessed instead the triumph of democracy, the defeat of totalitarianism (including the downfall of Stalin's own empire) and the emergence of new nations--not least the rebirth of Israel--must be attributed to Churchill's indomitable...
...fever has spread to the U.S. Within a month of its debut last September, the TV series--less a cartoon than a half-hour exercise in Pokemon product placement--became the highest-rated children's show in the U.S., first in syndication and now on the WB network. Nintendo has sold 2.5 million Pokemon Game Boy cartridges in seven months, making it the fastest-selling product in company history. Since January, 850,000 Pokemon trading-card sets have been sold in the U.S., and kids flock to malls to participate in official trading bazaars. So preoccupied are kids with...