Word: abstain
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Supporters of the proposal agreed that education should be the first line towards prevention. But they said that back-up plans should be provided for students who will not abstain...
That evidence points to an inside job. Sure, the Quincy House Committee recently voted 31-14 to contribute $300 towards buying a new foosball table. But are up to 14 anti-foosball vigilantes now roaming Quincy House? Quincy players take foosball seriously, but hopefully those who abstain don't take it that seriously...
Israeli researchers say soccer players should abstain from sex for six to eight days before a game for optimal performance, according to findings released on the eve of the World Cup . . . Defending champ Germany has already taken such advice to heart, banning wives and girlfriends from the team's hotel in Chicago; but in Detroit, Swiss team coach Roy Hodgson lightened up and lifted a sex ban on his players . . . Germany's national football team was also forbidden by its doctors to use their U.S. hotel swimming pool lest Chicago's ozone harm their lungs . . . Norway's state television...
Pledges from 100,000 teens to abstain from sex until marriage went on display today at the annual Southern Baptist Convention, signaling what organizers hope will be a national abstinence trend. TIME Religion writer Richard Ostling explains that the chastity campaign was begun by Southern Baptists but has now grown to incorporate many Catholic and Protestant young people as well. At a July rally in Washington, now in the works, organizers hope to display the signatures of over half a million teens...
Guiney and Lewis say they hope the group'srecent decision to abstain from politicalpositions will make more women feel comfortable atRUS events. Breaking from its activist past, whichincludes heated protests against Harvard'sall-male final clubs, RUS has become primarily aforum for women's issues and a grant-giving body,says Lewis...