Word: sized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of the meeting was great relief at the reduction in size," Gifford said...
Meanwhile, a group of neighborhood residents forced Harvard's hand in June by successfully appealing to the City Council to change the city's zoning laws and reduce the hotel's size. In September, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence announced that he remained committed to the hotel plans as the best short-term use for the site...
...Cambridge architect R. Phillip Dowds, another Defense Fund member who sits on the advisory committee, said that the new plans have not allayed his fears about the hotel's effect on the neighborhood. Even at half-size, he said, a hotel will exacerbate traffic and parking problems in the Square and contribute to an overly "commercial" atmosphere...
...nothing to do with macho and only a little to do with body size. A new study says the biggest factor is that men produce more of an enzyme that breaks down alcohol in the stomach...
...that explanation has never been completely convincing, either to scientists or to laymen. It fails to explain fully why when men and women of the same size have identical drinks, women tend to get tipsy faster. Scientists have long wondered if there might not be a more compelling biochemical explanation for the drinking puzzle. Last week a team of Italian and American researchers offered what looks to be the answer: women have far smaller quantities of the protective enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down alcohol in the stomach...