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...blood clot. It works by poisoning an enzyme in your liver that helps produce clotting factors. Its blood thinning (anticoagulating) effect comes on slowly but can quickly become (dangerously) greater than we want when you take different drugs or even different foods. The anticoagulation we want can easily overshoot - with dire consequences. It also can render ineffective or too effective, other drugs that are processed in the liver. Getting you on just the right dose of coumadin takes about a week, then you show up and get your blood drawn every week to make sure the level of anticoagulation...
...currency markets have a historical tendency to overshoot, and if they did so now, even stay-at-home Americans would feel the pain. In the markets, where the euro ended last week at $1.30, there is a sense that the greenback still has plenty of room to fall. Those fears were exacerbated last Friday when Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that international investors would "eventually adjust their accumulation of dollar assets"-which means sell them-or "seek higher dollar returns"-which means that U.S. interest rates might soar. Rising interest rates could lead to loan defaults and a reduction...
...National Association of Colleges and Employers, which forecasts a 13% increase in hiring. A survey out last week from CollegeGrad.com reports that Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Geico Direct and the FBI, among other employers, plan more than 1,900 entry-level hires each during 2004. But predictions can overshoot reality. Overall job growth is still falling short of economists' estimates, with unemployment hovering at 5.6%. --By Barbara Kiviat
...Start with the front cup, as most people tend to overshoot...
There is no such thing as normal weather. The average daytime high temperature for New York City this week should be 57[degrees]F, but on any given day the mercury will almost certainly fall short of that mark or overshoot it, perhaps by a lot. Manhattan thermometers can reach 65[degrees] in January every so often and plunge to 50[degrees] in July. And seasons are rarely normal. Winter snowfall and summer heat waves beat the average some years and fail to reach it in others. It's tough to pick out over-all changes in climate...