Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glasser implies, mistakenly, that the presence of more international students means that the Kennedy School is shifting its emphasis to diplomacy and international relations. Very few foreign students, however, are training to be diplomats. They have interests in a wide range of areas such as health and human resources, transportation...
The two drugs act in a similar manner, by interfering with the hormone progesterone, which maintains a proper uterine environment for pregnancy. Epostane prevents the ovaries from making progesterone; RU 486 blocks the hormone's activity. In both cases, the uterine lining sloughs off and the embryo is expelled.
To arrest the cycle of poverty, the best place to begin is at the beginning -- the earlier the intervention the better the results. Greater spending for prenatal care and neonatal care is the first step. Dukakis' proposal to spend $100 million for prenatal care for mothers not covered by health...
- Still, gnawing doubts remained. Despite exhaustive ground testing of the new and modified shuttle parts, none had been tried in the harsh environment of a launch, or in orbit or re-entry. Moreover, some of them are among the more than 1,500 "criticality 1" parts -- that is, items without...
Others are just as vague. Should the station be a research and manufacturing facility for performing microgravity experiments and making substances not possible on earth? An assembly platform for the large craft needed to carry humans to Mars? A combination of both? In fact, a station is not needed for...