Word: likening
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Cardiologists have long known that if you carry extra weight around your waist, which they liken to being shaped like an apple, you are at greater risk of heart disease. The other configuration, being shaped like a pear, with excess weight around the hips, doesn't eliminate your risk but seems to lessen it. Over the years it has become clear that apple-shaped folks have a certain kind of metabolism: they are more likely to be resistant to insulin, have high amounts of triglycerides (one of the fatty molecules you don't want too much of in your blood...
...defense of his beliefs, it may turn out that the greater risk was taken by the nine-member panel of judges, lawyers and citizens from both parties who last week voted unanimously to oust him. Three out of four Alabamans support Moore's stance, including passionate followers who liken the judge to everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to Moses. "You've got a handpicked panel of judges removing someone from office who was elected by an overwhelming majority," said Terry Butts, one of Moore's attorneys. "If the people had the chance to vote on Roy Moore, the majority...
...slick fielder who won four Golden Gloves playing for the Lions, Kazuo Matsui batted .305 with 33 home runs and 13 stolen bases this year. Scouts liken the switch-hitter to a stronger Ichiro Suzuki, the All-Star Seattle Mariners' outfielder whose impact on the U.S. game turned Japanese players into must-haves for major-league rosters. Matsui's move will be lucrative. Several clubs have already expressed interest, including the free-spending Yankees, who are already paying $6 million a year to last year's Matsui. This year's Matsui is likely to demand a Godzilla-like salary...
...completing a match-up of the ECAC’s top returning goaltenders. “It’s just like a great pitching duel,” Grumet-Morris said. “We saw a couple great baseball games over the last couple weeks, and I liken a good goaltending match-up to that...
...school where CIA recruits learn how to read code and sneak through checkpoints and memorize secret documents. At the Farm, Plame stood out, he recalls, for being the best shot with an AK-47 in the entire class. "She will no longer be safe traveling overseas," he says. "I liken that to the knee-capping of an athlete...