Word: warns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain male friend of ours--we'll call him Joe--recently revealed to us his nefarious scheme for scamming on women. We feel obliged to warn our sisters about Joe's crafty strategies. Get this, Norma: he tries to pick up women by asking them for advice on wooing other damsels. Sometimes he tries this on several women at the same party. Heaven forbid that any innocent lamb should be caught in this social wolf's paws. We'd like to warn our fellow Cliffies, but don't know how. Oh, Norma, fount of all wisdom, guide us. Appalled...
...entrepreneurs. Foreign investors are welcome, but corruption devours profits. Even longtime investors complain that the rules seem to keep shifting. Ho Chi Minh City's Export Processing Zone Authority lured foreign companies on the basis of proffered tax-free status--and then announced an 8% business tax. Economists warn that without a new round of reforms soon, Vietnam's progress will end. But the impressive gains so far may have made many officials overconfident. Boasts Vo Dai Luoc, director of the World Economy Institute, a think tank in Hanoi: "Always the outsiders predict we will fail. And always they...
...students interviewed warn against talk of a single "Black voice" or "Asian experience...
Shortly after the shooting, anonymous callers telephoned TV stations to warn that more police officials would be harmed if the investigation of Aum was not called off. But if the assault was meant to intimidate authorities, there were no signs of anyone backing off. All week investigators continued to dig into the cult's compounds in a rural village near Mount Fuji. According to a police spokesman, the investigators were gathering evidence that sect leaders planned to make poison gas "in preparation for murder,'' the closest that authorities have come to implicating Aum. Police unearthed tons of suspect chemicals, drugs...
...that long ago, doctors and patients viewed medical tests the same way military officers think about radar. By providing an early warning of a potentially deadly threat, the tests open up a critical window for averting disaster. Just because a little information is good, however, does not necessarily mean that more information is better. Physicians are starting to have at their disposal a whole new panoply of advanced tests that provide more detail about what is going on inside the human body-often down to the molecular level--than ever before possible. Yet as Jernberg discovered, such tests can warn...