Word: alpha
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...timely; on others you have to survive on fruit roll-ups and chicken-salad sandwiches past their sell-by date. The most reliable thing is courtesy Rolaids in the bathroom. Bedtime is just something you dream about until well past midnight. Air Gore was a grumpy place, and the alpha male in earth tones with his earnest town-hall meetings couldn't catch a break for much of the campaign...
...Alpha-blockers, which work on the sympathetic nervous system to reduce blood pressure, used to be widely prescribed. But a report earlier this year showed that they significantly increase the risk of heart attacks, and many physicians began changing their patients' prescriptions. Doctors then as now warned that dropping any blood-pressure medication can be dangerous, and should be done only under a doctor's careful supervision. One of the calcium blocker manufacturers believes clinical decisions should not be based on this type of study alone...
...timely; on others you have to survive on fruit roll-ups and chicken-salad sandwiches past their sell-by date. The most reliable thing is courtesy Rolaids in the bathroom. Bedtime is just something you dream about until well past midnight. Air Gore was a grumpy place, and the alpha male in earth tones with his earnest town-hall meetings couldn't catch a break for much of the campaign...
...becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with a hand on the wrist: Roll over, boy! Then there's Carrie's on-and-off-and-on squeeze Mr. Big (Chris Noth), a sexy, powerful (and married) alpha wolf...
...Maureen Dowd finds Gore preening: "Alpha Al, you the man. You got your mojo." Not actual Gore quotes...