Word: bmi
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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...cost carriers now account for about 25% of scheduled passenger traffic between Britain and the rest of the European Union, and 7% of European air traffic overall. And with the market on the move, more traditional airlines are developing budget strategies. Last March, U.K.-based BMI British Midland launched its budget arm, bmibaby (get it?), with flights from England's East Midlands Airport. bmibaby says it met its 2002 sales forecasts in the first three months of operation and come October will fly budget services from Cardiff International Airport to nine destinations across Britain and the Continent...
...There are plenty of reasons for Washington to worry about the expanding national waistline. Today, one in four American adults is obese, almost twice the 1980 rate. Obesity, characterized by a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more, causes about 300,000 deaths a year in the U.S., and is the country's second largest cause of unnecessary deaths, according to the American Obesity Association. It can lead to such potentially dangerous, even life-threatening conditions as diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure and osteoarthritis. And those complaints translate into major doctors' (read: insurance) bills and lost days...