Word: slimmer
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...better to run deficits and print money than to suffer massive losses of output and jobs. And the introduction of U.S.-style deposit insurance in many countries means banks are less vulnerable to runs by depositors than they once were. Finally, the possibility still exists (though the odds are slimmer than they were a year ago) that the Asian and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds could step in to recapitalize U.S. and European banks before they succumb to another great contraction...
What Campos' study shows, however, is that patients should have realistic expectations of what the surgery can do for them: People without diabetes have the best chance of losing weight and reaping the heart and metabolic benefits of being slimmer; among diabetes patients, those undergoing surgery early on in their disease might fare better than those who wait longer. Both Campos and Hamdy remind patients that surgery is never the final answer - weight-loss maintenance continues long after you're discharged from the hospital, and can only be done the old-fashioned way, with a healthy diet and exercise plan...
...could have been gleaned even from the smaller trial might not have proved useful. "Even pared down, the trial was too big," he says, "and was asking too many questions before we even knew if this thing worked. So I asked them to go back and give me a slimmer study that asks the question 'Does it work...
...Clinton's margin been slimmer, the end of the nomination battle might be in sight. Indeed, early in the night, some commentators speculated (perhaps hopefully) that she might use a Pennsylvania win as a chance to "go out on top." Any lingering thoughts along those lines evaporated when Clinton arrived at her victory rally in Philadelphia and triumphantly declared: "The tide is turning...
...strays who, in search of some pedigree in the snafu of college applications, have ended up where they can afford to be dedicated to success and little else. By contrast, transfers generally come because they know what they like, and see it at Harvard; they struggle against even slimmer odds to spend two or three years of tertiary education in the best way they...