Word: two-year
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With winter approaching, researchers caution us to mind our hearts. According to a French study presented at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Munich, cold spells too often trigger heart attacks, especially in people with high blood pressure. Tracking more than 700 patients hospitalized over a two-year period, researchers found that for those with high blood pressure, heart-attack risk doubled when the mercury dropped below 39.2F. Cold weather constricts blood vessels and thickens blood, making clots more likely...
...Engine Trouble Blaming high German labor costs and a stagnant auto market, Volkswagen said it could cut 30,000 jobs unless employees accept a two-year pay freeze...
...legendary oil-field fire fighter who put out an estimated 2,000 blazes around the world with his usual concoction of water and dynamite, including 119 fires in Kuwaiti wells torched by Iraq in 1991; in Houston. After World War II, the native Texan returned home from a two-year stint in the Army's bomb demolition unit to take a job with Myron Kinley, a pioneer of well-fire and blowout control. Adair later started his own business, and his exploits (an explosion in South Texas once propelled him 50 ft. in the air, and he emerged unscathed) inspired...
...released the show to television stations across French-speaking Africa; Pictoon now plans to make an English- language version, which it hopes to sell in other markets around the world. Sauvalie, whose thick dreadlocks brush his back as he darts from table to table overseeing new work, runs a two-year drawing and computer animation training course for every employee at Pictoon; qualified cartoonists, in turn, teach new arrivals how to draw. Increasingly these days the global animation business is being outsourced. Much of The Simpsons is physically drawn in South Korea, while Disney is planning to send some...
Beginning in the sixth grade, the pupils are asked to make a two-year commitment to take on the workload from the program—which Mead said includes not only additional class time during the year, but also six weeks of classes and two hours of homework per day in the summer...