Word: pumps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tulk, an attorney, during her fourth trip to Foodini's. "I'd say I end up cooking about half the time. The rest of the week it's usually fast food. This [pizza, clam chowder, salad] is a lot healthier." Although just a gourmet-pizza toss from the gas pump, Foodini's is decidedly upscale: light jazz, vodka-blush pasta sauce and not a microwave burrito in sight...
...most at risk? Boys more than girls, especially boys who are overweight. Their heart works so hard to force blood through extra layers of fat that its walls grow more dense. Then, after decades of straining, it grows too big to pump blood very well. Fortunately, the abnormal thickening can be spotted by ultrasound. And in most cases, getting that blood pressure under control--through weight loss and exercise or, as a last resort, drug treatment--allows the overworked muscle to shrink to normal size...
...this in a raucous Alex Box Stadium in downtown Baton Rouge, whose 2,014 fans in attendance tried all afternoon to pump the Crimson to an upset, which would have benefited the hometown Tigers...
Dahmer didn't let hatred infect his generous spirit. When two college kids ran out of money and gas on the highway near his store, Ellie says, he gave them fuel from his pump and lent them $20. The boys, like many people he helped, were white...
There are plenty of risks for investors in this brave new e-world. So-called boiler-room operators who tout highly speculative or fraudulent stocks in order to unload them at a profit--pump and dump in the parlance--can reach vast audiences through chat rooms and bulletin boards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been flashing red lights, bringing--and winning--40 complaints alleging scams against stock promoters since 1996. (The rule here: if it sounds like too much of a good deal, it probably is. The agency has a cyberspace alert on its website: www.sec.gov...