Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould was pulled into the debate when one of his theories was cited in a editorial supporting the building of the observatory--which some say will destroy the habitat of a rare subspecies of red squirrels...
...surgeons annually perform 330,000 coronary bypass operations. An additional 190,000 cardiac patients every year undergo angioplasty, which usually involves the use of a balloon-tipped catheter to widen their arterial passages. Both operations provide immediate, dramatic relief for the cardiac patient. But there are some risks: in rare cases, either technique can trigger a heart attack. Then, too, relief is only temporary. Five years or so after bypass surgery, on average, plaque has built up in the grafted veins. And arteries opened by angioplasty sometimes become partly blocked again within three to six months. Finally, the price tags...
EXCERPT: The most senior Soviet intelligence officer ever to work for the West offers a rare look inside...
...equality with their male peers in seeking access to athletes in a 1978 federal court ruling. Since then, women's ranks in sports journalism have swelled to around 500, but complaints about the obscenities and petty hostilities the female journalists regularly encounter in their work have been rare, or at least rarely publicized...
LADY BOSS, by Jackie Collins (Simon & Schuster; 608 pages; $21.95), offers the reader a rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. "Slowly, languorously" the naughty parts of speech tumble about during the sex scenes. But why aren't the scenes sexier? Never mind. The point of the story is to watch "darkly, exotically" beautiful but ruthless, yet sensitive and vulnerable female tycoon Lucky Santangelo -- she heads a billion-dollar shipping company but doesn't seem to go to the office much -- knife her way to ownership of Panther films, a big Hollywood studio. This she does without telling her actor husband...