Word: dropping
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...liver trouble. Most people on the pills report no complaints; those who do commonly list fatigue as the major side effect. Others refer to the peace of mind statins give them. "I feel safer," says Janet Brown, a 57-year-old New Yorker, who has watched her LDL drop from 177 mg/dl to 90 mg/dl. "I'm not walking on life's tightrope when it comes to my cholesterol...
Voucher critics warned that the loss of $2 million in state aid could devastate the district schools. While Spencer Bibbs did have to drop three reading specialists, the voucher threat inspired the district to make improvements, including extending the school year to 210 days. Today neither Spencer Bibbs nor A.A. Dixon is on the state's failing list...
...That means we're the majority. We're normal." Without victim-speak, Titus looks at how Titus has become his screwed-up self in reaction to, and emulation of, his womanizing, boorish dad (a cacklingly exuberant Stacy Keach). For Titus, family is war, and it isn't afraid to drop its audiences into uncomfortable situations with no one-liners to save them, as when Titus has an aids scare and confronts the psychological legacy of his dad's own skirt chasing. Like All in the Family, its model, Titus daringly snatches comedy from the jaws of family drama...
...rest of DiMaggio is rendered so vividly you almost want to look away. During his nonpareil career, DiMaggio learned to squeeze every drop of privilege out of his fame. Every nightclub operator in New York City understood that if DiMaggio came into his joint, it was good for business--which was why no one minded depositing the required couple of hundred into DiMaggio's account at the Bowery Savings Bank in exchange for the visit...
When I think back on what sealed my friendship with my high school classmate Antje, the obvious answer is chocolate. I'll never forget her 18th birthday party, when we devoured double servings of her mother's amazing chocolate mousse, or the times I'd drop by her house to nibble on the German chocolate bars her dad brought home by the dozen from business trips to Europe...