Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Though she no longer commands the spotlight at 10 Downing Street, Margaret Thatcher expects to remain visible on the world stage for years to come. "Life begins at 65, and I shall be working for the future," said Thatcher, who will continue to represent her London constituency of Finchley...
...autumn harvest is bubbling to be reborn as wine -- and omens for the 1990 vintage look good. True, late spring rains on the north coast meant that the crop of Chardonnay, the state's premier white-wine grape, was smaller than normal. No such problem with the reds, though. And the nose knows. Jim Fetzer, one of 10 siblings who run the family's 1,400-acre vineyard in Mendocino County, says his vintners tell him that "the winery hasn't smelled this good in 10 years...
...though, doctors aren't advising theirpatients to eat carrots until their stomach turnsand their skin becomes yellow. The study wasconducted on a sick population, Gaziano says, andbeta carotene's effects on healthy subjectsremains untested...
Generally, diseases such as those studied inthe Hanover project go though a long promotionstage of 20 years or more, says Mathews-Roth,before the tumor erupts in full force in the body.Any test to measure a drug's effect on skincancer, she contends, whould require monitoringthe patient though both the promotion andinitiation stages, many more years thanGreenberg's study...
Despite their ignorance, though, researchersare already looking past the study, anticipatingpopular reaction to the results. Hennekens fearsthat those who engage in high-riskactivities--smoking in particular--would take betacarotene instead of altering their lifestyle...