Word: losses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...international conference on TB in Orlando, Fla., last month, doctors noted that many carriers of the disease have no outward symptoms. Others suffer from fatigue, weight loss, night sweats or intermittent low-grade fever, which can signify any number of disorders. Only when the patient develops TB's brassy cough does the disease become contagious. Fortunately, the chances of catching TB are low. One study showed that it took as long as six months of daily exposure to become infected...
...inordinate number of customers appear to be feasting-or fasting, as the case may be-on the same simply prepared dish. Fish if it happens to be Monday night, beef on Tuesday, lamb if Wednesday. Peculiar? Not to these diet devotees. They are merely following the latest popular weight-loss regimen: the Scarsdale Diet...
Tarnower's formula is merely the latest variation on the familiar high protein-low carbohydrate regimen. Although food quantities are not specified, the doctor believes that most Scarsdale dieters average 1,000 or fewer calories a day. Many naturally complain of lassitude and find that their weight loss is only temporary. But others, like Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who lost 40 Ibs. on two two-week stints, are more than satisfied. The diet, he says, is "a thing of beauty." It is also, unquestionably, the diet of the hour. Some socialites with no weight problems...
...young and inexperienced Dartmouth eight edged out the women in black to take a brittle half-seat margin of victory to the line and leave Radcliffe with its first loss of the year...
Although the narrow loss was an excusemaker's dream. Harvard coach Bill McCurdy offered none yesterday...