Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same prices for all, the result will be a rate free-for-all that could make certain high-risk groups, like male teen-age drivers, uninsurable. Moreover, they contend that converting to unisex could cost the industry billions in added liabilities and administrative expenses. "The near-term jolt will shake the insurance and pension systems to their foundations," says Daniel McGinn, an official with the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. "And the long-term impact could be disastrous...
...been cobbled together than it was upset by former Labor Prime Minister James Callaghan, who blasted the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Polaris missiles, he declared, have "a life span of ten to twelve years as effective deterrents . . . and we should not give them up unilaterally." That sent a jolt through the party, and at week's end the continuing differences were so obvious that Foot was reluctant to answer questions on the issue...
...much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood to their muscles was three times as great, though there was no difference in their level of performance. "The Type A man is responding as though he were in an emergency or threatening situation," says Williams. The jolt of cortisol and epinephrine, he speculates, "could be causing more fat to be released into the blood, which may later be deposited around the heart...
...Evans was not dead. The electrode on his leg had burned through the straps and popped off. His body was motionless, but as the wires were reattached, he moved as if he were trying to draw a breath. Then came the second jolt, again for 30 seconds. Still the doctors were unsure that Evans had expired. His lawyers made a final appeal, conveyed by phone to Governor George Wallace, on the ground that the punishment had become intolerably cruel and unusual. Wallace said no. It took one more jolt, another 30 seconds, to make sure that John Evans...
...user inhales the vapor and, in seconds, gets an orgasmic jolt. The sensation costs $20, begins fading after a minute and is gone within ten minutes...