Word: augmentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week's FDA decision sharply reduces the options for women seeking to augment or rebuild their breasts. Not only were silicone-gel devices easy to insert but their look and feel best approximated the real thing. For 90% of women, they were the method of choice. While implants inflated with salt water are still available and considered safe (if they leak, the saline does no harm), they have drawbacks. They can shift as a woman moves, and the water may settle into the lower portion of the breast, stretching and tightening the skin. They are not recommended for thin...
...CHIEFTAINS: THE BELLS OF DUBLIN (RCA Victor). Is it too late for season's greetings? Not when they're as enterprising and altogether buoyant as this collection of Christmas songs by the great Irish traditional band, who augment their fiddles, harpsichord and Uilleann Pipes with vocal accompaniment by such % diverse characters as Elvis Costello, Rickie Lee Jones and Marianne Faithfull. A real Christmas treat...
...America in the era of affirmative action is this: middle-class black people are better off and lower-class black people are worse off . . . The most disadvantaged black people are not in a position to benefit from preferential admission." In response, some scholars wonder whether socioeconomic class ought to augment race, or even replace it, as a criterion in affirmative action. Proponents say that would be fairer and, in a society of limited resources, more effective. They add that it might diminish backlash -- especially if preferences went to poor whites as well...
Helmick was not the only suspected Olympic profiteer. According to the U.S. Skiing federation, which trains the Olympic ski team, USOC executive director Harvey Schiller offered to augment the team's financial grants in exchange for ski passes and accepted free ski equipment for his personal use. Schiller denies this, saying he paid for all the equipment he received. But Howard Peterson, president and CEO of U.S. Skiing, also charged last week in a letter to the USOC that "individuals in the USOC have used their position to intimidate and threaten others who comment on the actions of the USOC...
...Infantry Brigade of the Georgia National Guard appears to exemplify all that can go wrong with the Total Force policy. Some $40 million a year was spent to train and equip the 48th, which was considered a crack Guard unit. In the event of war, it was scheduled to augment the regular Army's 24th Mechanized Infantry Division. Said General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the 24th before he was tapped to lead Desert Storm: "I expect them to fight alongside us. They are, in fact, combat ready...