Word: whosing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...herself a majority in the assembly. Muslim parties began to rail against the prospect of having a female President. Wahid and Megawati had been very close in the reformist campaign last year, but even he came to resent her aloofness after the June polls: a mobile phone he carried whose number only she knew "rarely rang," according to one of his aides...
...among drug companies to be the first to find the critical enzyme. And it's easy to see why. "You can take the protease, put it in a test tube and keep adding chemicals until you find one that inhibits the enzyme," says Dr. Rudy Tanzi, a Harvard neurologist whose lab unraveled key aspects of the genetics of Alzheimer...
...adjusts by lowering the metabolic rate, thus sabotaging the effect of a lower caloric intake. I saw this when I was a consultant in a hospital weight-loss center that specialized in liquid diets. I was astonished at the number of people on 600-to-800-calorie diets whose weight loss seemed to stall after just a few weeks. Even worse, when you come off such a diet, the metabolism often remains at that lower level, making weight gain inevitable...
...Yankees in 1919--or because of a pall of New England Puritan guilt, or decades of nerves frayed into vermicelli by the exploits of Bucky Dent or Bill Buckner. The Sox lost because two mighty players--Pedro Martinez, the best pitcher in baseball, and Nomar Garciaparra, the finest shortstop whose first name happens to be his father's name spelled backward, at least until there's a better shortstop named Bob--could not carry 23 relative mediocrities on their backs...
...Maddux, John Smoltz, Kevin Millwood and Tom Glavine. The rest of the Yankee team is more balanced and more powerful than the Braves. And while Atlanta does have a snorting, 225-lb. alpha male lefthander, John Rocker, in the bullpen, the Yankees can turn to the impeccable Mariano Rivera, whose career post-season record--28 games, two runs allowed--enables New York manager Joe Torre to maintain his equanimity. And it's Torre's almost preternatural calm that keeps the players happy, which keeps the Yankees winning, which keeps George Steinbrenner out of the picture, which keeps Torre...