Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comptroller of the Currency John G. Heimann, the chief U.S. banking regulator, had just forced C & S to reclassify as questionable an additional $11 million in loans, mostly on real estate. That will convert the skimpy $3.2 million profit that the bank reported for 1977 to a $7.8 million loss...
...arteries leading to the brain become more and more clogged by fatty deposits, the chances grow that a clot may form in one of the narrowed passages, cutting off the flow of blood to a region of the brain. The result may be a stroke, which could lead to loss of memory or speech, paralysis, and even death. For this type of patient, few treatments are available, though doctors sometimes prescribe anticoagulants to lessen the chance of clotting. Yet, since 1967, teams of skilled neurosurgeons have been performing exquisitely delicate brain-artery bypass operations on such stroke-prone patients. They...
...lifetime loss of two days
Using life insurance statistics showing that for every pound of excess weight there is a loss in life expectancy of one month, Cohen went on to estimate the consequences of drinking cans or bottles of ordinary soda pop (which contain about 100 calories, v. no calories for the diet soda). The results of all these comparative calculations were decidedly in favor of the saccharin-spiked drinks. Says Cohen: "If all other things were unchanged, the substitution of diet for nondiet drinks would increase life expectancy by 100 times more than the cancer risk reduced...
...also have the effect of alienating many of Israel's supporters in America. Continued adherence to the present settlements policy can only serve to substantiate charges that Israel is militaristic and expansionist. In fighting for the settlements Israel may gain not security, but international pariah status, and a loss of the diplomatic and military support without which it cannot at present survive...