As a prelude to this winter's conditioning program, Vaughn met with a nutritionist and a doctor, who recommended he abandon weight-loss supplements and change his eating habits if he truly wanted to lose weight.
It is entirely acceptable in 21st-century Britain to abandon the weight of Savile Row-style suiting in favour of the lighter suits favoured by the Spanish, Italian and French, teamed with shirts designed to be worn open at the collar rather than simply unbuttoning their double-cuffed poplin Thomas Pink (and yes, there is a distinct difference).
Tom Hoenig, the vice-chairman of America's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has called for regulators to apply a simple leverage ratio, so that banks hold a minimum amount of equity against their total assets without any mathematical chicanery.Yet if regulators entirely abandon risk weights, banks may just load up with the riskiest and highest-yielding loans.
Does that mean she should abandon her weight-loss goal?
Randomisation was abandoned if weight could not be established and administration of the study drug was deemed unsafe.
If you become discouraged with your first diet, you'll be at risk for abandoning your weight-loss efforts altogether.
After a moderately successful career as jockey (1889 94), which he had to abandon because of increasing weight, he became a trainer and in 1900 produced his first winner, Agnes D. His career included lengthy associations with the Belair Stud and Wheatley stables.
None of which is a reason to abandon exercise as a weight-loss tool.
If the euro area's biggest banks were forced to abandon their internal risk-weighting models and instead apply cruder standardised models, many would see their core-capital ratios decline by several percentage points (see chart).
As Caroline Spelman, the Tory environment secretary, pushed forward with her controversial forestry plans – before they were abandoned under the weight of public pressure – Conservative MPs found their postbags and email boxes filling up with aggressive correspondence.
Morris (1975) argued that "there is no proof in the conventional sense that by altering behavior in accord with the results of observational studies with have been carried out – controlling weight, abandoning cigarettes, taking adequate exercise, or lowering blood pressure and lipid values in middle age – individual risk and population incidence will be lowered".
