Word: killer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter what your goals are, cardiovascular fitness must be the vital foundation. The importance of fitness of the heart cannot in any way be overestimated. The American Heart Association continually reminds us that coronary heart disease is still the number one killer in America--the picture cannot be painted in bolder hues...
...following its recommendations, says the report, the American people could cut by at least 20% the risk of developing coronary heart disease, the top killer in the U.S. They could also "substantially" reduce the threat of a host of other ailments, including cancer, stroke, high blood pressure, obesity, osteoporosis and liver disease. Just how to do this is described in the guidelines, which were prepared by a 19-member panel after a review of more than 5,000 studies. The NRC group not only crystallizes the broad dietary goals laid down by earlier reports but also extends them to children...
...documentary in 1985 about a psychiatrist who testifies in death-penalty cases, the director stumbled across Adams' story. "I was interested enough that I wanted the details," Morris recalls. What he found in the prosecutor's files shocked him. The slain officer's partner, who testified that the killer had bushy hair like Adams', had at first told investigators that the car window "was too dirty to see through." Prosecutor Doug Mulder argued that the defense could not cross-examine a witness because she was traveling. In fact, she was staying at a Dallas hotel, possibly with the prosecutor...
...would allow promising but unproven treatments for AIDS to move onto the market more swiftly than other new drugs. Last week the agency made good on that promise. It said it would approve an aerosol drug, pentamidine, for treatment of a deadly form of pneumonia that is a leading killer of AIDS patients...
...Bundy was never what a serial killer was supposed to be like. He didn't hear voices or look like a violent sociopath on the Charles Manson model. He wasn't raised in the streets, learning crime as a way of life. The Bundy case throws sociology texts out the window; Ted Bundy was a nice...