Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would pass around that he got from who knows where. But by last April, when police say he started a cross-country killing spree that climaxed in the fatal shooting of Versace, all his worlds were collapsing. His last rich guy had dropped him. He was gaining so much weight that few would give him a second look. He might have discovered he had the AIDS virus...
...hard to imagine controversy over stock-index funds, investments so sensible and pure that they are practically motherhood on Wall Street. The problem, it seems, is that this particular mother has consumed a few too many bonbons and grown to a crushing weight. Money has been flowing into stock-index funds in torrents in recent years as investors have caught on to their appeal: index funds cost little to run, compared to actively managed funds, so more of the profits are passed on to investors. Index funds are also easy to track since they move in near perfect tandem with...
WHAT KILLED THE BOOM Britain ultimately collapsed under the weight of defending the empire from colonial uprisings and imperial rivals. It lost its technological edge. Lastly, and most ghastly, the Great War bled it white...
BODY BELTS BEGONE! Leather support belts worn by weight lifters may be of little value. Measured electronically, stress on the spine is the same among men who do or don't wear belts...
...CLUE FOR CEREBRAL PALSY Doctors have long known low birth weight increases a baby's odds of developing cerebral palsy. But now research shows that normal-weight babies are also at risk if the mother is harboring an infection during delivery...