Word: onsets
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Alas, the metaphor falls apart after the 28th, when you try to apply the adage that salespeople have quoted since the onset of commercial marketing, "The customer is always right." Shoppers like to try things on at a relaxed pace and see how they feel and fit: if one item is too itchy and another too tight, we put them back on the rack and start over at the next store. But try this method while looking for classes during Harvard shopping week, and you'll end up with three Cores you've never heard...
...leader who knew how to speak with his body. Now the long, bounding stride of his early pontificate has been reduced to a slow and agonized shuffle in which he barely lifts his feet from the ground. He takes care to hide the shaking left hand that signals the onset of Parkinson's disease, but he cannot disguise the frozen features and slurred words that at times betray the illness. Rumors of cancer and of the Pope's imminent demise swirl about...
...supply of the natural hormone plummets, triggering such symptoms as night sweats and hot flashes. Decades of research have shown that estrogen is the closest thing to a perfect antiaging potion. It moisturizes the skin, maintains strong bones and protects against heart disease. It may even delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. There is one big catch, however: estrogen may increase as much as 40% the risk of developing breast or uterine cancer...
...lost works. Landscape with Smokestacks first came into the family on June 9, 1932, when it was acquired at a Paris auction for 10,000 francs (U.S. dollar equivalent at that time, $740) by Simon's grandfather, Friedrich Gutmann, a German-Jewish banker living in Holland. With the onset of World War II, part of the family collection, which included 10 Old Masters and several other Impressionist canvases, was sent to France for safekeeping, only to be seized there by the Nazis. When Germany invaded the Low Countries, Gutmann and his wife Louise were taken away. She later died...
...been a meandering path," Di Cosmo says, his words marked by a broad Italian accent, with a constant, slightly self-conscious smile hovering on his lips as he speaks. "Some people know what they're going to do from the onset. I've been the opposite...