Word: abstain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facilities in Detroit. During the past decade the city has lost most of its famous retailers, and black leaders hope a boycott will pressure merchants to provide convenient outlets for the city's thousands of black customers. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Adams urged Detroiters to use the Lenten season to abstain from shopping at all stores in the suburbs, not just the ones in Dearborn. "Don't shop anywhere but in Detroit," he told his congregation. "If you can't find it here, do without...
Orzack stresses that the research group does not accept drug addicts. "We want people who are healthy mentally and physically," she says. "Besides, they have to be able to abstain from most drugs up to 72 hours before the tests...
...enough scientists and technicians follow Harvard's and other schools' lead and exercise their "right" to abstain from this research, then the policy will be scrapped not by Congress, our elected representatives, but by a handful of academic experts. Why would this be "right?" Presumably because the scientists know better than the people and Congress that this program is dangerous and ill-considered. They would become political actors of the first order, and yet would still claim their "right" to be free from political pressure...
...protective influence of heavy smoking, which may result from its effect on estrogen levels, is confined to postmenopausal women. Younger women who smoke stand the same chance of getting uterine cancer as those who abstain. Even for older women the benefit is as evanescent as, well, smoke. Any protection against uterine cancer that smoking offers, scientists say, is far outweighed by the enhanced risk of developing cancers of the throat, stomach, bladder, pancreas and lungs, as well as heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis. Comments Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health: "To smoke...
...Polynesians. "Our recruiting is not predicated on black or white, Mormon or non-Mormon," insists La Veil Edwards, 54, the Mormon coach, "but on lifestyle, people who can appreciate our environment." Every student (98% of the student body is Mormon, 67% of the football team) takes an oath to abstain from alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea and premarital sex. Not surprisingly, B.Y.U. is probably the most married college football team in history, counting some 30 happy unions. The Cougars' most talented pass receiver, Glen Kozlowski, has two children, and he's a junior...