Word: leans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from proletariat homes, they have all in some way risen to the highest occupational or intellectual rungs of the country. The reader should therefore not be surprised that many of those Borneman interviewed mourn the foregone possibilities of socialism and the progress left behind. On the positive side, the lean toward intellectuals blesses this book with an overview of East German society to which the working class might not have had access...
...year when two Sondheim musicals, Merrily and West Side Story, are being staged at Harvard, even the most devoted fan cannot complain. Sondheim fans can draw comfort from the knowledge that in both lean years and fat, the AIDS Coalition will be putting on polished performances of some of the cleverest music ever...
...correlate neatly with the amount of fat in a nation's diet. The U.S., Britain and the Netherlands, which have some of the world's richest diets, also have among the highest breast-cancer rates. Meanwhile, in countries such as Japan, Singapore and Romania, where the diet is very lean, the incidence of breast cancer is one-sixth to one-half the U.S. rate...
Frequently, doctors use a variety of factors to determine which patients are at highest risk. One major consideration: tumor size. "One centimeter ((0.4 in.)) is considered the major turning point," says Dr. Larry Norton at Memorial Sloan-Kettering in New York City. "Over 1 cm, and I lean very strongly toward additional treatment." A close look at the tumor cells will provide other clues, says Dr. William McGuire, chief of medical oncology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Misshapen cell nuclei, abnormal amounts of DNA or an accelerated rate of cell division...
...Edwards' heroics wouldn't have mattered if it hadn't been for 49ers forward Kevin Cutler's 10-foot lean-in jumper over Mitchell with nine seconds remaining in regulation. The basket capped Cutler's 18-point second-half effort including 10 points in the first eight minutes that converted a four-point Long Beach deficit into a five-point lead...