Word: robert
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...have some growing evidence that indeed when statins are prescribed in the right indication in the right amounts, they can reduce heart attack and stroke and reduce death from cardiovascular disease," says Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology of Northwestern University and past president of the American Heart Association...
...science divisions may see the largest budget reductions. “It’s the natural sciences which are going to be critical in this process because that’s where the big money is,” said Richard Tuck, chair of the social studies committee. Robert E. Holt, a laboratory administrator in the Chemistry department, said that he has been told that FAS funding of the department may decrease by over 20 percent. Finding places to trim poses a unique challenge to smaller departments, in which staff salaries take up a large proportion of budgeted funds...
...work with the mainstream media. As if to prove this, the next day Obama came to the press cabin of Air Force One and started joking with journalists from AP, NPR, Bloomberg and Reuters about how they got questions, opining that they must have been nice to press secretary Robert Gibbs...
...shirt-worthy slogans.) 7. My grandmother once told me I was her favorite. I don't think she meant it. 8. When I die, I want a steaming hot Reuben sandwich shoved in my mouth during the open-casket part of the funeral. 9. I cry during Robert Downey Jr. movies. (See the top 10 movies of 2008.) 10. My friend Brian and I once brought home a dead opossum because we wanted to "stuff" it. We tried to cut off its head with hedge clippers, but it was late fall and the creature was far too frozen...
...mixed bag of ululations and disappointments, Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, agreed to enter into a government of national unity (GNU) with fellow opposition leader Arthur Mutambara and the controversial incumbent, Robert Mugabe. Whatever the skepticism and whatever the argument, this deal is a necessary evil...