Word: upshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...UPSHOT Publisher issued new version of the novel...
...upshot is that energy bars today are a mixed bag. At the stoic extreme is MET-Rx, the nation's No. 3-selling brand, whose carb- and protein-heavy bars have 40% of the zinc, copper, chromium and magnesium you need in a day, along with a boatload of vitamins and almost no fat. But even MET-Rx concedes that its chalky bars are no treat. "If you're virtuous, you're going to trade off taste," says MET-Rx CEO Len Moskovits. "Try chewing on a vitamin pill--it doesn't taste that good." Pure Protein's slightly medicinal...
...invest in large companies, buy a low-fee index fund. But to invest in smaller stocks, it's worth paying more for an active fund manager. That's the upshot of a new study by Morningstar, which shows that for the five years ending Aug. 31, the S&P 500 index outperformed actively managed large-cap funds. Managed small-cap funds, however, almost always bested the Russell 2000 index...
...young man sitting/In the old man's bar/Waiting for his turn to die" into a tune so whistleable as "Broadway" is a marvel and, perhaps, the saving grace of this album. One might criticize the hackneyed phrasing, the pretentious lead vocals, and the uncreative musicianship, but the upshot of Dizzy Up the Girl is that its melodies are so memorable and euphonious as to shift attention from the sorrow of which they sing. Isn't that, after all, an optimism that we of the Prozac 90s could...
...upshot is that the committee is a Sharks-and-Jets mix. Until the recent addition of Mary Bono, the Republicans were all white, all Christian and all male. More than half are from the South, and only one is from the Northeast. The 16 Democrats include five blacks, five Jews, three women and one openly gay man. As a group they voted with the liberal Americans for Democratic Action more than 90% of the time...