Word: leading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What makes the golf swing so hard on the back? University of Southern California orthopedic surgeon Robert G. Watkins says it's the repetitive extremes in rotation and compression that go with the sport. "Spine injuries lead the list of injuries on both the senior and regular PGA tours," says Watkins, spine consultant to the Professional Golfers' Association Tour and editor of The Spine in Sports (Mosby, 1996). "It's true for amateurs...
...Kubrick was usually star shy, preferring ensemble casts of solid players to huge names. But when Terry Semel, who runs Warner Bros. in tandem with Robert Daly, gave the project its green light, he said, "What I would really love you to consider is a movie star in the lead role; you haven't done that since Jack Nicholson [in The Shining]." Kubrick was concerned that a movie star wouldn't share his tireless work ethic. Nevertheless, the Cruises were approached...
...reason we looked at TV watching and diabetes is because previous studies have found that TV watching is related to weight gain and obesity," said Dr. Frank B. Hu from the School of Public Health, the lead researcher of the study...
...group studied included adults in their early twenties as well as elderly people. Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Charles A. Czeisler '74, the lead author of the study, said previous research indicated that many older people suffer from insomnia because the sleep cycle shortens with...
...Trimble will now have to consult with his constituents over whether to accept the British plan or lead the parties who want Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain on a path of confrontation with London. The first test of the loyalist mood will come Sunday, when British troops will enforce a ban on a march by Protestant militants through a Catholic neighborhood in Drumcree. The spectacle of miles of razor wire and a field flooded to create a moat between Protestant marchers -- ostensibly commemorating the Battle of the Somme -- and some 1,000 troops and police protecting the Catholic...