Word: stroke
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...painstakingly trying to forge with his menacing neighbor. However valid Bush's concern, by expressing it publicly he undercut an ally. Likewise, Bush's abrupt abandonment of the Kyoto global warming treaty, whatever the merits of the decision, provoked a wave of anger across the Atlantic and in a stroke reinvigorated anti-American feeling throughout Europe...
...right and left, dramatic waves of budding larkspur and lavender freesia descend upon the central flowers like the leering old men. These literal interpretations seem to offer the most fun for visitors who want to go through the exhibits trying to match each flower to a particular brush-stroke...
Coming as it did amid reports that federal regulators are about to call for tighter controls on dietary supplements, including the memory pill Ginkgo biloba (which has been found to cause excessive bleeding and, in rare cases, stroke), the study's conclusions touched a raw nerve among those who see herbal medicine as a gentler, more natural route to healing. The nonprofit American Botanical Council issued a stinging press release criticizing the research as inconclusive, and the supplement industry's Council for Responsible Nutrition said there was nothing in the study that showed St. John's wort wouldn't work...
...mother died last week, 17 years too late, of Alzheimer's disease--though not technically, of course. Technically, Alzheimer's victims die of heart failure, pneumonia or perhaps a stroke, since the symptoms of the disease and a series of strokes are indistinguishable. My mother died of some respiratory thing, technically. It might be said that she died because she stopped breathing. Now, I would like to start breathing again myself, having held my breath for 17 years...
Freshman Meredith Chiampa posted an 85-78=163, which tied her for eleventh place, one stroke...