Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feel a mosquito biting at your leg? Be careful: it might be America's new pest, the Asian tiger. First discovered in the U.S. nine months ago in Houston, the mosquito can transmit dangerous viral infections, including dengue fever and the La Crosse virus. The tiger has since been found in three states besides Texas: Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee...
With the new procedure, doctors insert a catheter into an artery in the patient's arm or leg. The catheter is pushed through the circulatory system to the heart. When it reaches the diseased valve, a balloon on the tip of the catheter is inflated. Once it's successfully opened the valve, the balloon is deflated and removed...
...women is like kissing dry ice: "You think I'm a man and you're a woman," he says to a female culprit. "That's wrong. I'm a manhunter and you're something that has been running in front of me." He later shoots the lady in the leg to prevent her escape...
...rolling country on both sides of the Mississippi, a low-key picnic atmosphere was typical in many spots, with impromptu bluegrass or pop concerts. In Memphis even Elvis joined up as one fan grabbed the hand of his statue and another his leg. In the farm town of Lonoke, Ark., the throng that had gathered unashamedly shouted out "I love America...
Many investors believe that the market is now taking off on another leg of its stampede toward the 2000 mark. Says Thomas Kelley, chairman of BankAmerica's investment-management subsidiary, which handles about $15 billion: "It was so obvious the market was going to come back." Notes Richard Goforth, a broker for the Los Angeles investment firm Crowell, Weedon: "People feel like we're in a good bull market that's going to last for another year...