Word: stated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will move fast toward a peace agreement with Syria. Last week Barak was still finalizing his government, but he seems intent on starting off his term with a dramatic gesture. Peace with Syria would fit the bill. An expected adjunct agreement with Lebanon would mean an end to the state of war on all of Israel's borders...
While his ultimate aspirations for the St. Francis Foundation are not clear, the fund was his scam's undoing. State regulators balked when the Virgin Islands-registered Foundation sought to take over U.S. insurance companies. But by early May, when Mississippi and Tennessee regulators began seeking the return of assets from Frankel's Liberty National, Frankel was gone, leaving behind, among other things, a half-million-dollar charge for jet fuel on his credit card. At his house, FBI agents recovered astrological charts intended to answer, among other questions, "Will I go to jail...
...problem with margarine comes from substances known as trans-fatty acids. At room temperature, the vegetable oil used to make margarine and shortenings stays in a liquid state, not the most spreadable consistency. When the oil is treated with heat and chemicals, the fatty-acid molecules straighten out, allowing the liquid to solidify. But this trans-fatty configuration also converts beneficial polyunsaturates into less healthy fatty acids, and this can cause blood fats to rise...
...Internet millionaires to realize that the fast track runs year-round. "The job market is as strong as we have seen it in decades, but there's a signal pressure--a race to be more qualified than the next person," says Philo Hutcheson, a professor of education at Georgia State University...
...Gunby brought his gripes to the attention of the Texas state legislature and then aired them before the American Medical Association. Last week, at its annual meeting, the organization representing 290,000 doctors in the U.S. voted to try to bring Gunby and his colleagues some relief in an unprecedented way: by forming a labor union...