Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Soto should have his brain tested," the editorial read, arguing that the candidate "is obviously not playing with a full deck...
...again? To show off his vigor and dispel negative reports about the company, a determined Iacocca flew to Washington last week to kick off a six-city tour. Standing before a display of Chrysler products, Iacocca harangued the crowd: "Every time I pick up the paper, I seem to read another story that reinforces the idea that things made overseas are somehow better than anything made in America," he said. "We're not going to let that kind of crap go unchallenged anymore...
...lead a simpler life and don't care if they're in my column." Something of the same is true in the home of the bean and the cod, according to Boston Herald gossipist Norma Nathan, whose column "The Eye" is the paper's best-read feature. "Boston has no celebrities," she says. "The best items are the ones that have big names" -- actors in town to shoot a movie -- "mingling with the people here...
...huge research project included 22,071 volunteer subjects. And the main conclusion, published in 1988, was headline material: taking small doses of aspirin can reduce the risk of a heart attack. But women who read the fine print discovered that the study had little apparent relevance to them. Reason: not one of the 22,071 subjects was a woman. Admittedly, the overall risk of heart disease is greater in men, but after women reach menopause that difference in susceptibility largely disappears. Many older women would have been interested to know whether taking aspirin would improve their chances of avoiding...
...nine, Garber read in the evening Star about an airplane demonstration. He mooched 50 cents from his father and hopped the Washington trolley to Arlington National Cemetery. When he stepped down, he heard a strange sound, looked up and saw Orville Wright steer his Military Flyer above him with Lieut. Frank Lahm, one of the first military pilots, at his side. Garber ran up the hill to Fort Myer, where President William Howard Taft was witnessing the birth of American air power. Years later, Garber, by then a friend of the Wright brothers, acquired both their original plane...