Word: totaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sharp instruments. "I used to call him in the morning and say, 'Marty, make the trade!'" recalls Ted Bitter, a former client of Frankel's. "I would call him back in the afternoon, and he wouldn't have done it." His own fund, the Frankel Fund, attracted a total of three investors and the attention of the Securities and Exchange Commission when Frankel revealed a prodigious inability to distinguish his own money from his clients'. After the SEC got wind of his next venture, Creative Limited Partners, Frankel was barred from trading securities (presuming he could pull the trigger...
...butter diets. The more trans-fatty acids in a spread, scientists found, the more fats in the blood. Although all the butter substitutes reduced the level of LDL (the "bad" cholesterol), the trans-fatty acids sometimes drove down the concentration of HDL ("good" cholesterol), changing the critical ratio of total blood cholesterol to HDL. In the case of stick margarine, this ratio actually climbed above the butter baseline. Says Tufts professor of nutrition Alice Lichtenstein, who headed the study: "It's the stick margarine, with its high trans-fatty-acid content, that is the worst offender...
...Bargain hunters can pick up a lam (top floor, all the way in the back), a trash can and a small fan--for a total of less than $25--at Dickson Brothers...
Even if every retail purchase doesn't result in divulgence of a personal secret, there is something to be said for announcing the amount due instead of waiting for the customer to notice you've finished and look for the total on your register display...
Bargain hunters can pick up a lam (top floor, all the way in the back), a trash can and a small fan--for a total of less than $25--at Dickson Brothers...