Word: standard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fence about taking the standard deduction or itemizing, you might consider a strategy, known as bunching, in which you defer deductions one year, accelerate them the next, and so on. That allows you to benefit from itemizing every other year while taking the standard deduction in between...
Reader, come back! We promise to use standard English (mostly) from now on. And if the words get too gnarly, relax and look at the pictures: those Frisbee-eyed kids, the guys with their steel-sinewed biceps, the heroines' celluloid bosoms that defy gravity and logic--and all with spiky hair that could really use some mousse...
...part of the unlucky group that gets the placebo or 'dummy treatment' and not the real medicine," says Dr. Bob Comis, president of the National Cancer Cooperative Groups. They think the placebo group gets no treatment at all, when in fact it gets whatever is considered the best current standard of care...
INSIDE INFORMATION Colonoscopy is probably the world's most unpopular procedure, but the notoriously uncomfortable test, in which a probe is snaked through the anus and into the bowel, is still considered the gold standard for detecting colon cancer in its earliest, most treatable stage. Now there may be a less traumatic alternative. A study shows that a "virtual colonoscopy"--basically, a fancy CAT scan--is nearly as accurate (82%) as the real thing in detecting tiny precancerous polyps. The procedure zaps patients with radiation equivalent to about five chest X rays, but it's noninvasive, requires no sedation...
...first down, Murphy went into his bag of tricks and called a standard play, the tailback pass. This time run by freshman Brent Chalmers instead of injured senior Chris Menick, he underthrew wide-open freshman wideout Kyle Cremarosa. Cremarosa came back to the ball through triple coverage and somehow made the catch at the Yale 18-yard line...