Word: tested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some gay couples who wed in Hawaii will return to their states to begin court battles for recognition of their now legal unions. Yes, 29 states and Congress have passed laws restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples. But gays who marry in Hawaii would then have legal standing to test these laws. The federal law would also be vulnerable to challenge. In other words, the nation would begin anew the wrenching debate over marriage under way in Hawaii today. However, if the amendment is approved, gays may have to set aside their biggest issue for years to come. They will...
...crust is not golden brown, to give just two examples, out the offender goes. This obsessive attention to detail has helped earn Papa John's the title of best U.S. pizza chain in surveys conducted by Restaurants and Institutions magazine for the past two years. (A highly unscientific taste test by members of TIME's New York City staff also gave Papa John's the highest marks among the four major pizza chains...
...consume pizza at the rate of 350 slices a second, the market for restaurant pizzas has been growing just 2% a year. Yet Papa John's customers keep coming back for more. So far this year, Papa John's sales in stores open more than a year--a crucial test of health in the business--have grown a strong 9.2%, one of the best showings in the restaurant industry. Now Schnatter has his sights on loftier goals. "The stage is set for us to become the No. 1 pizza brand in the world," he told throngs of enthusiastic Papa John...
...William Acquavella, 60, a closemouthed and formidably well-connected New York private dealer whose stockroom is one of the best in the U.S. Acquavella impressed on Wynn that in the art market, there are no bargains: he would have to pay top dollar for top works. The big test of this came with buying the first of two Van Goghs, Peasant Woman Against a Background of Wheat, painted a few weeks before the artist's suicide at Auvers-sur-Oise in 1890. This exceptional portrait had been hanging on loan in the Metropolitan Museum, and it cost Wynn a nonnegotiable...
...suffer from seasonal depression and 25 million more develop milder versions. But there's never been definitive proof that treatment with very bright lights (10,000 lux, or 20 times as bright as your office lights) makes a difference. After all, it's hard to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. That's why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy from placebo effects...