Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broad wording of the referendum as a threat to pro-choice voters. Smeal argued that if abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy after fertilization, then Question 1 has ramifications for the availibility of birth control. The intrauterine device, morning-after medication and some of the low dose birth control pills work by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus and thus might be regulated, along with abortion, by the passage of Question...
...dose of reality added to the abstract andtheoretical work at the school will help[professors] see that it has a relation to thepresent. It is important to link the present andthe past," Carman said...
These drugs kill people; they destroy lives and families. But on the same day that University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died from a cocaine over-dose, countless more Americans abused alcohol. Some of those people died, others brought about the deaths of others. By suggesting that substance abuse flourishes largely among a segment of the population outside the mainstream, Reagan arms himself with painlessly-acquired political capital, yet ultimately misrepresents the problem...
Drugs stayed on the fringes of society throughout the '50s, but Beat Generation artists began enhancing their perceptions with pot and later with more mind-bending hallucinogens. LSD's hallucinogenic qualities were discovered by a chemist who accidentally swallowed a dose in 1943. By the early '60s, an obscure Harvard lecturer named Timothy Leary began feeding his students LSD and advising them to "turn on, tune in, drop out." Fired by Harvard, he promptly became a counterculture deity...
...sign of the best kind of advance," says Newton Zinder, E.F. Hutton's senior market analyst. In fact, the recent one- month slump, triggered in part by a brief upsurge in oil prices, makes investors feel better because they have it out of the way, like a dose of castor oil. Says Donald De Lutis, a money manager at San Francisco's Robert C. Brown investment firm: "I think 5% to 10% corrections are part of the normal activity of a great bull market...