Word: height
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overweight, short, bald smoker with high cholesterol saying, 'Well, I'm short and bald. I guess I'll just have to accept that I'm at risk,' " says Dr. Charles Hennekens of Harvard Medical School, co-author of last week's report regarding the impact of height. "And a man who is 6 ft. 1 in. and smokes has a far greater risk of heart attack than someone who is short." All people, regardless of their height or other , factors, should be making the recommended life-style changes. When it comes to heart attacks, that's the long and short...
...Harvard Alumni Office will keep a master list of student and alumni information: age, height, weight, gender, sexual orientation, estimated (or in the case of current students, potential) income. People from all over the country, all over the world will call the office. For a modest fee, they will receive the number of a promising candidate. Harvard affiliates who are married or morally opposed to matchmaking services could, also for a small fee, remove their names from the list...
...third quarter. But it was quickly doused by a torrent of dismal reports showing last summer's rebound to be short-lived. Sales of new homes plunged 12.9% in September despite the lowest mortgage rates in 14 years. Consumer- confidence sagged in October to levels not seen since the height of the Persian Gulf war, and the unemployment rate for the month crept up 0.1%, to 6.8%. Even normally reticent Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan admitted in a speech last week that the economy had recently turned "demonstrably sluggish...
With partisan politics at their height, it's also not a good time for the Republicans to lose ground in the Senate. Wofford only increases the Democratic majority by one vote, but it is solid liberal vote in the place of a moderate Republican one. In very close votes (such as Supreme Court confirmations, veto overrides on civil rights bills, etc.) this could make a big difference...
They have a substantial height advantage over the Crimson, and feature several consistently good hitters and an excellent setter...