Word: stomachal
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...sort of wifely dependency. In my day as an undergraduate, we had a crude but effective word for such arrangements: Radcliffe is simply lying down to be co-opted. At this moment, it could use at its head a tough, tactically shrewd firebrand. But do you think Harvard would stomach...
...telephone is torture. It doesn't ring, and his stomach grows holes. It does ring, and he can't dare get his hopes...
...aspersions on his charity. The New York Post reported that the Michael Bolton Foundation, which purports to help women and children in distress, in 1995 gave away only 15% of the money it raised. The 1996 figures were missing. Bolton, who said the allegations made him "sick to [his] stomach," immediately hired a crew of suits, including an emergency spin doctor, to clear things up. Meanwhile, the charity announced that expenses were high in 1995 because of fund-raising events but that administrative costs were below the industry standard. Stay tuned for an anguished ballad about being a good...
...lobby long played on the fear that .08 would mean social drinkers who've had a few after work would all fail the Breathalizer. But research shows you can drink yourself silly before reaching .08: a 170-lb. man can guzzle four martinis inside an hour on an empty stomach before he gets there. He may not be sloppy drunk, but who wants to run into this guy on the road? A quarter of the 17,000 drunk-driving deaths in 1996 happened at .08 or less; impairment starts as low as .02. The drinking lobby admits that...
PLAY ALL DAY Monsanto's Celebra is a new-generation anti-inflammatory drug called a COX-2 (cyclo-oxygenase) inhibitor. It blocks arthritis pain without attacking the stomach lining, a major problem with anti-inflammatories. To be co-marketed by Pfizer in the U.S., Celebra could go on sale...