Word: terming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...started to think long term and look at the leaders around me. That kind of corporate lifestyle, the life I had started to live...was not in tandem with the direction I wanted to go," she says...
...course we have a long term goal, but right now we are concentrating on taking every match-every game-one by one," Lopez said. "We are definitely on a high right...
...take risk into account and tack on the tax and leverage benefits of a mortgage, and you have an asset that in coming years just might (gulp!) beat the stock market. Should you sell all your stocks and hire a carpenter? Of course not. For convenience and superior long-term returns, stocks remain the way to go. But real estate rises about as fast, and while you can't easily sell your house to capture the gain, you do get to live in it. Here's why it's O.K. once again to view your house as an investment...
When fenfluramine was approved in 1973, the FDA declared it safe for short-term use. The assumption: that it would be prescribed for only severely obese patients who seemed impervious to other treatment--"not," as University of Pennsylvania cardiologist Frank Silvestry puts it, "to get into a bikini or wedding dress." But in 1992 all that changed. Studies showed that if fenfluramine was taken with a kindred drug, phentermine, the euphonious fen/phen duo would help dieters shed pounds not only faster but with few side effects. Although the drugs were never approved for combined use, doctors exercised their right...
There were skeptics even then. The little capsules, they warned, were only a stopgap, not the final answer to obesity, which is still handled best by eating less and exercising more. They also pointed to unknown dangers from long-term use as well as evidence suggesting a risk of neurological damage and a rare but fatal lung disease...