Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...LIST Who says politics is drab? L.A. entrepreneurs Marie Condron and Ian Riekes Trivers asked designers to create something au courant for the Gore-Lieberman campaign. Using the same techniques designers applied to '80s rock shirts this fashion season, they cut, slashed, fringed and studded campaign shirts for that oh-so-now glam-T look. Price: $25. While the G.O.P. has no clothing line for the cool kids, Bush did score big glam points when he was endorsed by goth rocker Marilyn Manson. But Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew apparently doesn't think the hipster bloc is in play, telling...
...second. "Gore basically realized that the Republicans did not want to deal--that they wanted a surrender, but not a deal," says Dick Morris, who was advising Clinton at the time. "Clinton constantly thought there could be a deal, was constantly floating out proposals and ways to cut the knot...
...approved in the U.S. in 1987, they didn't really take off until 1994, when researchers in Scandinavia proved that simvastatin (brand name Zocor) could significantly decrease a heart patient's risk of dying from a second heart attack. After investigators showed that both simvastatin and pravastatin (Pravachol) could cut the number of first heart attacks among those with high cholesterol, doctors assumed that all statins could do likewise...
...predicts that doctors will be much more aggressive in their use of such preventive strategies in the next year or two. "Statins are one therapy; ACE inhibitors are another," he says. "There are pretty powerful data that medical therapy can arrest the progression of coronary disease and atherosclerosis and cut down on cardiac events." As always, the art of medicine is in taking that information and figuring out who will benefit most...
...million a year in turnaround money pays for only 14 teams to assist the state's 44 low-performing schools. Gore's national turnaround budget is $500 million a year, and he moves failing schools to the front of the line for funds for after-school programs and to cut class size, but even that may not be enough...