Word: breasted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year period in the 1960's when 58,000 men and women died in the Vietnam War, 330,000 women in this country died of breast cancer...
...HEARD THE NUMBERS -- 10% OF AMERICAN MEN ARE GAY, 2.7 million children are abused, one in eight women develop breast cancer. Politicians, activists, fund raisers, scientists and, yes, magazine journalists routinely unload such staggering statistics on a trusting public. The numbers are presented as though they carry all the weight of scientific truth. Don't believe...
...deliberately to mislead, raise money or advance an agenda. "Many statistics are generated by people who have a vested interest," notes journalist Cynthia Crossen, who is writing a book on how numbers are manipulated. The American Cancer Society has said 1 in 8 or 9 U.S. women will develop breast cancer, though the frightening statistic is based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that the country...
Already gay leaders are on the defensive, wondering in particular if they can continue to count on a hefty budget for aids research, which along with breast cancer is the only disease to have received more money in the Clinton Administration's National Institutes of Health budget. Critics have been grumbling that AIDS absorbs 10% of the NIH outlay. Now gay activists predict more Congressmen will echo Congressman Robert Dornan, who said of gays last week, "They've lost their edge on the floor. This collapse in their figures will influence the aids debate significantly...
Kory attributed part of her less than-spectacular performances in the 400 IM and 200 breast to her not being completely rested before the meet...