Word: trough
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...year, diet searches begin a precipitous fall, dropping 32% within the first few days of the New Year, only to briefly recover in the summer months for swimwear season. The collapse then resumes until diet interest reaches an all time low on Thanksgiving Day. Diet searches remain in the trough in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas, until the last few days of the year, when they surge again and the yearly cycle repeats...
...around, oh, say, 42 out of 42. The President's friends say he has a lot more respect for Clinton now having seen what the ups and downs of the office are like. And this White House can only envy the final trajectory of Clinton's presidency--in a trough with two years to go and then celebrated as he ran up surpluses and pulled all-nighters negotiating Middle East peace. President Ronald Reagan, stung by the Iran-contra scandal, plunged in polls 23 months before he moved out of the White House. But he overhauled his staff and went...
...take the sugar out of soup, of course, but you don't have to add to the trough. The key, as always, is to read labels and distinguish fact from marketing fiction. Low-sugar Froot Loops, for example, have a third less sugar than the original. But if you think the new version packs fewer calories or better nutrition, think again. "They aren't able to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse," says Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, "but at least they succeeded in putting lipstick...
...Lascaux II, a modern facsimile that gives them an inkling of the cave paintings' power. But before the fungus outbreak, anyone determined and patient enough could successfully petition the authorities for permission to visit the real thing. The only precaution was a requirement that visitors walk through a trough of formaldehyde solution--the regimen that Pallot-Frossard of the LRMH suggests may have inadvertently enabled the fusarium to flourish...
...shown poor judgment. And George W. Bush's failure to accept Rumsfeld's offers of resignation suggests that the President also has poor judgment. Lawrence H. Gordon Honolulu How can we as american citizens have any respect for those retired generals who spent their careers at the public trough and now want to destroy the boss they sucked up to while in command? They need to spend their time playing golf and sipping martinis at the club and leave the important decisions to our elected leaders. Joel Epperson Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. Why didn't the generals come forth with their...