Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group that gets my grandparents discounts at motels? What's the big deal? The big deal is that, by membership, they are the third largest organization in the United States, next to the Roman Catholic Church and the American Automobile Association, and they have no problem with throwing that weight around Washington. In addition, senior citizens vote in higher percentages than any other demographic group. So, it should not come as surprise that Social Security and Medicare made up 31 percent of the budget in 1994, and received $177.1 billion more than defense, everybody's favorite budget whipping...
...Bioengineered DNA was, weight for weight, the most valuable material in the world. A single microscopic bacterium, too small to see with the naked eye, but containing the genes for a heart-attack enzyme, streptokinase, or for 'ice-minus,' which prevented frost damage to crops, might be worth $5 billion to the right buyer." There is popularity in a passage like that. It bears information a man, even a casual-reading man, can do something with. Win a bar bet. Pass the time creatively on the scaffold with the hangman. It is skinny with legs. Crichton is Captain Reliable...
...will hopefully be nominated again for "Seven," but with his luck someone will release "Rain Man II" at Christmas and again deny him his due. Freeman's Detective Sommerset does not just pay lip service to being burned-out. His spirit is so heavy we can almost feel its weight. He lives in a world filled with ugliness, and when confronted with beauty, in the form of Tracy Mills, he seems ready to weep...
...facility will have a weight room, according to Oommen, but will not have space for recreational groups...
Heather Trebilcock has never smoked a cigarette. So she certainly never thought she would be putting nicotine directly into her blood--or that she would be grateful for its presence. But when Trebilcock developed severe abdominal cramps and diarrhea two years ago and starting losing weight--dropping 20 lbs. in three weeks--she knew she had to do something. Her doctor in Des Moines, Iowa, thought she might have colitis, a painful inflammation of part of the large intestine. In her case, however, standard treatments for the disease didn't work , and her condition deteriorated...