Word: stomach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million a day--and stores in Dallas, Miami and elsewhere are selling out. One downtown Chicago outlet upped its order from 2,000 Big King patties the first week to 5,000 last week, and manager Lolita Aldana says lunch lines have doubled. The secret to the American stomach, circa 1997? The Big King has 75% more beef than the Big Mac, an extra 12 grams of fat (yum!) and no soggy third bun in the center. Most important, it has cost just 99[cents]. Such a simple strategy--more food for less money--contrasts with McDonald's weird pitch...
...military high-ups weren't the only ones to lose their stomach for a fight. William Weld got a severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...
...seemed to bring on a plethora of problems: severe migraines, memory loss, aching joints and nerves so damaged that Laitinen was unaware that a hot skillet was searing her until she smelled burning flesh. Her cyst-riddled ovaries were removed, and she developed eight stomach tumors. "There's no history in my family, no reason for me to be ill," says Laitinen, 51. "There has to be something else...
...inevitably, says Waller, the North Koreans will be back. "They've stalled these talks before." Eventually, he says, Pyongyang will decide that the four-party talks are in its interest ? and though it may sting the national pride, only foreign aid can quiet the rumbling of North Korea's stomach...
...kilo of cocaine or heroin in their intestines. Before ingesting the drugs, they fast for several days, then swallow cooking oil for lubrication. Next, the oblong packets are placed in their esophagus with pliers and shoved down their throat. If a condom rips or is corroded by stomach acid during a long flight delay, the drugs burn, slowly, through the internal organs. On arrival the mules are taken to a hotel room by gang members and given large doses of laxative. "The most I have seen a man carry is 56," Tobon says. He estimates that about...