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Word: resets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan to buy I-bonds, do it before Nov. 1, when yields get reset. I-bonds have two elements: a guaranteed 3.3% interest rate and the rate of inflation, last counted at 1.75% (for a total 5.05% yield). The inflation rate is going higher, and will be applied to old and new bonds. But the guaranteed part may go lower on the new bonds. Buy now, and lock in the old guarantee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Savings Bonding | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...taking measurements of body temperature and the body chemical melatonin, the scientists discovered that exposing the subjects to even dim light during nighttime hours can reset the human clock, making it difficult to wake up on time in the morning...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Studies in Brief | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...taking measurements of body temperature and the body chemical melatonin, the scientists discovered that exposing the subjects to even dim light during nighttime hours can reset the human clock, making it difficult to wake up on time in the morning...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: Study Pinpoints Sleep Clock | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...fate of Anna Friel's character, Hermia, to get rather lost in so-so productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and sure enough, that's what happens in Michael Hoffman's adaptation, which oxymoronically manages to seem both leaden and hasty. Reset for no discernible reason from ancient Athens to 19th century Tuscany, it focuses on the fun stuff--the fairies who inhabit the damp but enchanted wood, the rude mechanicals (led by Kevin Kline's hammy but well-cured Bottom) and their awful-wonderful production of Pyramus and Thisbe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: But Midsummer Night's Drear | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...reported RSIs? One explanation is that computer keyboards are, in a sense, too easy to type on. Unlike the unbroken skittering of keyboard touchtyping, the motion of typing on a typewriter is a larger one, involving more than just the muscles of the fingers. In addition, the need to reset the page at the end of each line and then to feed in a new sheet at the end of each page provide "micro-breaks" of the sort that doctors and physical therapists recommend for RSI prevention (the study remains to be done on the comparative incidence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

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