Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...observes Dr. Theodore VanItallie of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. But this evidence could also lead to despair. If people are born to be fat, are attempts to slim down doomed? No, say weight specialists. Low-fat diets and exercise can help offset heredity. People may inherit a propensity to obesity, but it need not be their destiny...
...said some of his successor's chiefchallenges will be projects Harvard has startedduring his tenure. The planned University-widecapital campaign, the move towardinternationalization of the curriculum and anincipient environmental studies program are allinitiatives the next president will inherit...
...blasts as they sit watching television and snacking on berries and cream in their Beverly Hills mansion. Their two handsome sons return home from an evening at the movies to discover the horribly mangled bodies. The police probe the possibility of a Mafia hit but find nothing. The boys inherit their parents' fortune, estimated at at least $14 million, and a $400,000 insurance policy. Seven months later, the scenario takes a shocking twist when police arrest the orphaned sons and charge them with committing the killings...
...hates her round suitor. Meanwhile her aunt, Lady Andatramp (Michael Starr) is plotting for her own daughter, Jane Eyrehead (Glenn Kaiser) to catch the rich bachelor. But Sir Cumference (Daniel Zelman) is only rich because he drove Ophelia's brother, Captain Acaje (Andrew Dietderich), crazy and so stands to inherit the Bottoms' family fortune and estate...
...Japan's constituency system, members of the same party often run against each other in the same district. Unable to campaign on different platforms, the candidates stump on their ability to bring special benefits like new roads and factories to their towns. Nisei have a distinct advantage because they inherit the so-called three bans: jiban (constituency), kanban (name or recognition) and kaban (suitcase or campaign chest); they don't have to spend their early careers building these...