Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston as in other cities, the joint ATF-police teams took a low-key approach. They asked a few questions and explained the new laws. They did not openly threaten dealers with investigation or prosecution, but the message was there. Of the city's 99 dealers, 82 voluntarily turned over their license or did not renew their application. "I think that tells you that bottom line, maybe they weren't complying," says Paul Evans, Boston's police commissioner. "They couldn't withstand the scrutiny, so they're out of business...
...very first feature spread of the very first issue of her new magazine, Talk, editor Tina Brown's formula of mixing high culture and low comes into view like a pop in the nose. It's a haute-fashion shoot at a real Las Vegas boxing match, with a model, dressed by Helmut Lang, cavorting with Tony Curtis and George Foreman. On the cover, Hillary Clinton looks heavenward as if invoking divine guidance for her husband's "sin of weakness," Gwyneth Paltrow crawls on a leopard-print rug, and George W. Bush looks as if he's about...
...knows for sure why pennies are disappearing. A big factor, though, clearly is people's low regard for the things. Few carry them to spend or are willing to lug heavy sacks to the bank. James Benfield of the Coin Coalition, a lobby group for eliminating the penny, figures that 25% of annual penny production ends up in landfills...
...through to tech support in just 3 min. And since I'm not a gamer, I wasn't worried that my new PC lacked a 3-D graphics accelerator or top-of-the-line processor. Compared with my poky, four- year-old 75-MHz Pentium home PC, even this low-end model (by today's standards) is a screamer...
...wine and the French paradox of people eating huge quantities of saturated fat yet having low rates of cardiovascular disease: Alcoholic drinks, especially red wine, when consumed in moderation can possibly be protective. Red wine contains flavonoids that are very strong antioxidants. They exert protective and prophylactic effects. As the French and others who eat a Mediterranean diet usually consume wine with their meals, the flavonoids can begin their protective action just as the fats are entering the bloodstream. PAULA MONTEIRO CABRAL Porto, Portugal...