Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it was possible the doctor's diagnosis was too hasty and didn't want to believe it. "Part of us said, 'How can he look at a kid for 15 minutes and judge?'" Says Charlene: "I believed she had ADHD, but I knew we needed a two-pronged approach...
...problems with this replacement approach put the pressure back on U.N. efforts to contain Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Washington is still betting that the highly trained inspection teams that trooped back to Baghdad last week can bridle Saddam's more dangerous ambitions. But privately, the hope is starting to wilt. U.S. officials are concerned that the eight-year-old U.N. regime may have done almost all it can to uncover existing stockpiles. UNSCOM inspectors have already rid Iraq of many of its missiles, launchers and tons of chemical munitions and production equipment. They are now searching mainly...
...baby boomers now have children of hunting age; surely the approach many boomer parents take to hunting is colored by such influences long ago. The nation's culture wars--and the absence of big real wars as the theater of heroes--meanwhile have changed the balance of attitudes toward male and female virtues. Nurturer's virtues, in some circles, find it difficult to coexist with warrior's virtues--as if the nurturer now aspired to surpass the warrior in self-righteousness and sentimental hypocrisy...
Epps says he was careful to take a studiously neutral approach to race, one he now views as overly cautious...
Gene therapy seems wondrous and, as a new form of intimate intervention in nature's business, vaguely disconcerting. The other major approach to angiogenesis--drilling tiny holes directly into the beating heart muscle with a laser--seems aggressively screwy. But the procedure (called transmyocardial revascularization) seems to work. And as violent as it sounds, it appears to be relatively safe...