Word: potion
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...years drug companies have been searching in vain for an effective antisepsis potion. Then late last month Eli Lilly & Co. sounded an optimistic note. Clinical trials of a new Lilly drug called Zovant were abruptly halted when it became clear that the death rate of desperately sick patients infused with Zovant was significantly lower than that of counterparts receiving a placebo. When news of this development reached Wall Street, Lilly's stock jumped more than 14 points, to 102, in one day. "We'll know when we get all the data what the drug is truly capable of doing," says...
...Cherish - The Association 2. Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison 3. Hang On Sloopy - McCoys 4. The Lion Sleeps Tonight 5. Happy Together - Turtles 6. Love Potion #9 - Leiber/Stoller 7. She Loves You - Beatles 8. Bridge Over Troubled Waters - Simon & Garfunkel 9. Ride my See-saw - Moody Blues 10. Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers...
...wrote to amuse ourselves," Leiber says. It shows in the manic energy and irrepressible good humor of their music. It's still hard not to laugh at the comic turns they wrote for the Coasters, such as Charlie Brown and Love Potion No. 9. Such story songs as Along Came Jones and Young Blood were inspired by Leiber's love of radio series like The Shadow. Their subjects ranged from knife fights and no-accounts to class clowns and the clap. That last can be found in what Leiber calls the "snide innuendo" of their hilarious Poison...
...there was something you could do to increase your happiness, enhance your health and extend your life expectancy, you'd do it, right? Well, there is. The magic potion? An enduring marriage. The benefits of a prolonged state of union are well documented. To cite just one of many studies: researchers Linda J. Waite and Lee Lillard found that for men, staying married boosts the chances of surviving to age 65 from 2 out of 3 to almost 9 out of 10. Yet since only about half of U.S. marriages endure, young couples often have trouble finding good role models...
...Cancel your appointment with the funeral director, to start. The threat from inflation will moderate. I may reel from Greenspan's potion for a while, but I'm sure I'll feel much better later in the year. The next few months in the market could be rocky, though. I'd find it soothing if folks lightened up on their speculative investments, like Internet stocks, and rotated into parts of the market that present better value: some banks and financials and lots of small-company stocks. Some foreign shares might be a good choice. And don't rule out bonds...