Word: sipped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BUSINESS: Just a Sip or Bottoms...
...done by rote now, says Schwartz, who is the host of Sinatra-oriented radio shows six days a week on % New York City's WQEW-AM. "The process is so machinelike: the limo drive, the placing of the tuxedo on his body by his dresser, the sip of alcohol, the psychological procession of ritualistic movement, the depth of his solitude in the middle of it all, the elaborate moat that surrounds his heart and soul -- to say it's an American tragedy is not overstating the case...
...illogical to grant young people the right to judge and alter the sobriety of others when they cannot legally do the same for themselves, just as it is absurd to allow 18-year-olds to create new citizens when they can't celebrate the birth with even a sip of champagne...
...study, researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School compared the drinking habits of 340 men and women who had suffered recent heart attacks with those of healthy people of the same age and sex. The scientists found that people who sip one to three drinks a day are about half as likely to suffer heart attacks as nondrinkers are. The apparent source of the protection: those who drank alcohol had higher blood levels of high-density lipoproteins, or HDLs, the so-called good cholesterol, which is known to ward off heart disease...
...Friday night in the heart of old Shanghai, the crowd at J.J.'s is working up a postsocialist sweat. Men in suits and ties gyrate with fashionably dressed young women; at small tables newly affluent entrepreneurs sip drinks between calls on cellular phones. The young people at J.J.'s revel in something unprecedented for China: personal and professional liberation. Those with the will and skill to take advantage of economic reform are freer than ever to seek their fortune, their mate and their own identity...