Word: repeatability
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Today's New England Journal of Medicine reports that Canadian doctors have found that the controversial drug probucol halves the need for repeat angioplasties, which are given to 20 percent of the 1 million people who undergo the proceedure each year. The $16,000 surgery is often repeated within a few months because of reclogging...
...course things are much different. The economy is on a firmer footing. And since that horrendous crash, much has been done to forestall a repeat debacle. For example, brokerage firms and mutual-fund companies have invested billions of dollars in technology so that they can answer all the calls and execute all the trades on the busiest days. The New York Stock Exchange, which has never traded even 1 billion shares in a day, currently has the capacity to trade 3 billion shares. On the computerized Nasdaq stock market, capacity was a mere 250 million shares...
...navel), Miss America contestants will be permitted to wear bikinis in the swimsuit competition. Leonard Horn, CEO of the Miss America Organization, explains that the decision "is about choice, individuality and allowing 17- to 24-year-old women to be who they really are," and is not, we repeat, not a ploy to boost ratings. The organization, concerned that the image of the beauty queen is a wee bit outdated, is giving the competition a make-over. Accordingly, the national office distributed to local organizers the following list of word substitutions to make during this year's pageant season...
...would also have to impose a rising scale of "graduated sanctions" for all juvenile offenses, beginning with the first, and keep adult-style criminal records on juvenile offenders. Under the present system, most such records are often closed, meaning prosecutors can't learn whether an accused youth is a repeat offender. "The juvenile justice system isn't working," says McCollum. "This bill puts consequences back into...
...troopers hoped to strike it rich and the picture of Jones as a lovesick puppy hoping to catch Clinton's eye. How will Jones counter that image? She and her handlers scheduled an interview with TIME last week, then canceled it. She may find another forum in which to repeat her tale of woe, or she may wait for her day in court. That could be coming sooner than anyone thought possible...