Word: shockingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Eating right and exercising are the ideal prescriptions for weight loss, and experts agree they're also the best way to prevent heart disease. So it came as a shock last week to learn that Clinton, 58, had been admitted to New York--Presbyterian Hospital after complaining of mild chest pain and shortness of breath, and was put on the fast track for quadruple-bypass surgery. Four of the arteries supplying blood to his heart muscles were so clogged that doctors would have to raid vessels from elsewhere in his body to funnel blood around them...
...wasn't a shock to anyone who knew Clinton's history and something about heart disease. "How could it happen?" asks Dr. P.K. Shah, director of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "Very simple: you cannot reverse a lifetime of heart-unhealthy habits by getting religion for a year...
...Still, no one envisions energy prices knocking Japan back into recession. Since the 1970s oil shock, the country has diversified its energy sources?expanding nuclear power and natural-gas use, for example?and has learned to conserve. Japan consumed less oil in 2003 than it did in 1993. "High oil prices are a big issue, but they don't blow the economy off the map the way they used to," says Ken Courtis, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia, in large part because "there has been a tremendous attempt in Japan to produce more with less." The specter of American...
...about $35 per barrel, easing the pressure on regional economies. He sees Asia's GDP growth contracting from about 7% this year to just under 6% in 2005?still an eminently respectable performance. But in a world kept constantly on edge by terrorism, the threat of a price shock triggered by a spectacular attack on energy infrastructure or by further instability in the Middle East can't be dismissed. Says the foreign executive at the Guangdong power plant: "Oil is our biggest expense?and our biggest uncertainty...
...better than to imagine that the son would essentially serve out the father's second term. They knew W. was charming and stubborn and sour-mouthed, much more like his mom than his dad. They knew he was more partisan by far than his father, that he loved to shock people--an amiable guy who still liked to pick a fight. But Republicans of all stripes wanted a restoration so badly, the moderates persuaded themselves they could trust the Bush brand, trust that 43 would turn out like 41: diplomatic in foreign policy, pragmatic at home. It turns out that...