Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House, G.O.P. members began discussing milder presidential punishments as if they were debating different models of a new car. Formulations like "censure," "censure plus," and "censure with teeth" came in and out of fashion. With Gingrich out, Hyde's committee in obvious disarray and Livingston showing no stomach for dealing with the impeachment mess, the troops had no leader to guide them. But before the agitated Republicans could flee the House in a stampede, DeLay, the third-ranking Republican and the man whose job it is to round up votes, started nailing the exits shut. The Constitution allows one option...
...plenty of dealings with those irksome little enzymes cyclooxygenase 1 and cyclooxygenase 2, better known as cox-1 and cox-2. They're what you suppress every time you take an aspirin. Trouble is, aspirin, ibuprofen and other over-the-counter pain killers wreak havoc on the stomach lining--and kill thousands every year through internal bleeding. So last week, an FDA advisory panel gave the green light to Celebrex, the first of a new breed of drugs called cox-2 inhibitors that promise to deliver all the relief of today's pain killers with none of the side effects...
Attention parents: doctors warn that pennies minted after 1982 can be a hazard if swallowed and not excreted. The newer coins are made with zinc. When the metal combines with stomach acid, the result is so corrosive, an ulcer can develop within just a few days...
...mature business. His critical insight was an ability to define exactly what business Coke was in--a task that is far harder than you think. For instance, he taught his executives that when they set goals for market share, they needed to focus on the share of stomach, not the share of carbonated beverages. His adversary was water, not soda. By this definition, Coke's 40%-plus market share became 3%, changing the company's view of growth. He then redefined the term global for a company that was already seemingly everywhere. By 1997 he pushed Coke's overseas profits...
...claimed was built on nothing more than "sex and carrots." At age 45, he met, hired and later married a comely 19-year-old swimming champion with whom he toured Europe in an act whose climax was her jumping from a 7-ft. platform onto his flexed, trampoline-like stomach...