Ultimately, cardiologists hope to create a powerful new triple-threat cocktail combining today's statin drugs for lowering bad cholesterol (like Lipitor) with new compounds to boost good cholesterol and other drugs that would directly reduce vessel-wall inflammation.

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Planning your meals in advance is a money-saving triple threat that will keep your savings account in the black.

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Taking a cure from NES controllers of yore, the mouse also packs a so-called "Triple Threat" button, which will let you get off three shots with a single click, or cut those exhausting double-clicking tasks in half.

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Meanwhile Moody's Investor Services said there was no imminent threat to the triple-A sovereign ratings of Britain and the United States for the time being.

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Slow down now and you will move faster, further and with greater purpose later--even when, or especially when, you are staring down the triple threat of complexity, speed and uncertainty.

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