Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...average cup of coffee contains about 100 mg per cup, while tea has about half that amount. A can of Coke has 100 mg also, while a can of Jolt has 200 mg. Smaller amounts of caffeine can also be found in chocolate...
...economy will not get anywhere near as big a jolt -- it is eight times as large as the other two combined -- but should enjoy an explosion in exports to Mexico. According to trade experts, those could increase substantially from a projected $40 billion this year, ultimately creating more and bigger American paychecks. Says U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills: "For every billion dollars worth of exports, we gain 20,000 jobs." More important, she told a press conference last week, jobs in export industries pay on average 17% more than employment in the rest of the economy...
...recovered, but it took months and extensive surgery at Johns Hopkins ) Hospital in Baltimore. Gore moved into his son's hospital room for those first few weeks and tried to maintain his Senate duties from the child's bedside. "It was a terrible jolt for Al, a defining moment," says a longtime friend. "Al hasn't been the same since...
...anything positive can be said about the strongest earthquake to hit California in 40 years, it's that it chose a relatively good place and time to strike. Sunday's powerful early-morning jolt -- 7.4 on the Richter scale in contrast to 7.1 for the 1989 San Francisco Bay area quake -- shook people from their beds and houses from their foundations and was felt as far away as Colorado and Washington. But it was centered in the sparsely populated Mojave Desert, some 100 miles east of Los Angeles. A second quake, with a Richter rating of 6.5, struck an even...
...Washington Irving's classic folktale, Rip Van Winkle awakes from a 20-year nap to find his youth behind him, the world radically changed and his assumptions hopelessly outmoded. Schizophrenics roused to reality by clozapine endure much the same jolt. Re-entry is not merely a question of catching up with the arrival of rap music and the end of the cold war. It often means coming to terms with lost dreams: the chance to buy a house, build a career or perhaps start a family. On top of this, patients emerging from schizophrenia must acquire the skills needed...