Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Blooming too early? At age 8, fully 48% of black girls and 15% of white girls begin to show the first signs of PUBERTY, though 11 is the age when most doctors start to look for it. Researchers are worried that the early onset may be owing to chemicals in the environment that mimic the action of estrogen. As for the racial disparity, they can't explain...
...what the production lacked in polish it made up for in sheer energy, projecting an exuberance that was ultimately irresistible. It also had a big plus in its leading man: Tim Arnold was perfect as the matador whose puffed-up complacency gives way to an amiable cluelessness with the onset of his amnesia. He even succeeded in making El Bean's smitten shyness around Ana engagingly dopey without degenerating into complete farce...
Freshman midfielder Rebecca Brown agreed with Kleinfelder's assessment of the game. "[The start's] definitely a crucial part. One of our weaknesses as a team is offensive and defensive intensity at the onset of a game. That sets the pace of the entire game...
...million Americans suffer from the degenerative brain disorder, and caring for them costs some $100 billion a year. Before the middle of the next century, the aging of the baby-boom generation is expected to swell the number of Alzheimer's sufferers nearly threefold. Measures that delay the onset of symptoms in these patients by just five years could cut the associated health-care costs as much...
...often used to describe the terrible toll of Alzheimer's--connotes balance. In fact, for Reagan, as for all other victims of this degenerative brain disorder, the good days gradually diminish and the bad just get worse. And as with other victims, it's not easy to pinpoint the onset of Reagan's disease. Because he occasionally fumbled details in the 1980s, some speculated that the symptoms started to appear while he was still President. But he had been prone to odd gaffes for decades...