Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women who sustained their pregnancies after receiving the drug had clinical abortions. Dr. Couzinet hopes to improve the success rate of RU 486 even further by mixing it with small amounts of prostaglandins, biological compounds that cause the uterus to contract and help expel the embryo. That combination, the French researchers say, should provide a 100% effective form of after-the-fact birth control. "There are between 40 million and 50 million abortions performed annually around the world," Couzinet says. "If we have found a safe, convenient medical method of terminating pregnancy, I think it will turn...
Four challengers, who have sailed 34 races each since October, have emerged to compete in the semifinals, which begin Dec. 28. The leader, New Zealand, has amassed 198 points out of a possible 199; it will sail a best-ofseven series against fourth-place French Kiss (129 points), named after its sponsor, Kis, a French manufacturer of photographic equipment. Kiss has been a surprise, surviving with a brash young crew and steady sailing. Second-place Stars & Stripes (154 points), skippered by Dennis Conner, who lost the Cup in '83 and is determined to get it back, will battle...
More than any of its predecessors, this contest pivots on high-tech advances. All competitors now have winged keels for stability, as well as sophisticated onboard data processors. Some syndicates were aided by government specialists and their supercomputers. The blueprints for French Kiss came from the labs of Dassault-Breguet, the French aircraft manufacturer famous for its Mirage fighter jets. A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip...
...latest keel was flown in from the U.S. after the second round at a cost of $91,000, it was thought to offer little advantage and was never used in competition. Other syndicates made furious and fancy changes before the December race series. Stars & Stripes added a new mast, French Kiss new sails. USA changed to lighter nickel-cobalt rigging, and the weight saving, under the complicated 12-meter formula, was put back into the boat as ballast to counteract the rising winds and seas of the Australian summer...
...Party Congress in Hanoi last week, three longtime stalwarts resigned because of "advanced age and bad health": General Secretary Truong Chinh, 79, Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, and veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...