Word: circuitous
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Physicians have since learned how to short-circuit that chain reaction. By numbing the surgical site with a separate injection of a local anesthetic, they can prevent many of the pain signals from ever reaching the spinal cord. Then, by administering small amounts of morphine to the spinal cord once the operation is over, they can significantly reduce any pain that occurs after the local anesthetic wears...
...issued a statement in response to the fifth circuit's holding in Hop-wood v. Texas, a federal appeals case which undermined affirmative action in that state's admissions policies. In the past few months, he has addressed the Massachusetts Historical Society, Princeton University and the American Council on Education on the subject of diversity
...denial of Brown's appeal leaves in effect a ruling from last November by the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston that Brown had violated Title IX, the 1972 code that bans gender discrimination in education...
...business magnate and colorful owner of the Washington Redskins football team; in Washington. A high school dropout who began as an encyclopedia salesman, Cooke built what may be a billion-dollar fortune, freewheeling his way through media properties, sports franchises and real estate. In 1971 he pioneered the closed-circuit mega-sportscast by financing the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match. Fans and foes relished reading about his four tabloid-tale marriages. Approached for a book on the world's five greatest salesmen, Cooke replied, "I am not one of five anything...
...lesser sentence for carrying the same amount of the drug. The case involved a black man, Duane Edwards, who was arrested in the District of Columbia in 1995 for selling an undercover agent 126.6 grams of crack for $3,400. In rejecting Edwards' argument last December, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that Congress was trying to purposely discriminate in setting greater penalties for possession of crack. Edwards' hope of securing a less severe sentence may eventually be realized: The U.S. Sentencing Commission is pressing for legislation to equalize the sentences for both kinds of cocaine...