Word: givens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church listening to Uncle Roy intone the Ten Commandments and thinking that the one prohibiting adultery will be hard to keep. This, and his remark about politicians resembling actors, suggest that Julian may grow up to be a successful public man who gets entangled in a sex scandal. Given Wilson's production rate, it is unlikely that readers will have to wait long to find out. Incline Our Hearts is the first novel of a proposed trilogy. If the next two are as good as the first, readers will have a small classic on their hands...
...kept saying, "You've got to see him much more frequently. I'll arrange it." But he never did. When I saw him, it was probably as often as not at my initiative. But I didn't feel very comfortable about that. The President was really quite supportive, particularly given the pressures that he was under from his own people. He had some basic instinct that he didn't like inflation, which was a great help to us. He wasn't necessarily enthusiastic in his support, but he wasn't heavily critical...
...were still easily broken. But the Texas researchers tried giving patients slow-dissolving fluoride pills that released the drug only after leaving the stomach. The fluoride was administered intermittently and with a calcium compound so that the new bone would form gradually and be strong. When the preparation was given to 251 women with spinal-bone loss, bone mass increased 3% to 6% a year and the frequency of vertebral fractures dropped significantly. Side effects were minor and occurred in only 5% of the patients. The treatment has not been shown to work for osteoporosis of the hip or wrist...
Unlike at most major schools, athletes are not given additional academic resources. Harvard does not provide its athletes with study halls and tutors like at Holy Cross, for instance...
...Women's sports are definitely different than men's sports, as far as the difference between the top 20 teams nationally and teams in the Ivy League," Delaney Smith says. "In a given game, I would say it is more likely for a women's team to upset a team from...