Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While agreeing that teachers should be paid more, school committee members said they cannot afford to provide the teachers with an 8 percent raise. Teachers' salaries already make up four-fifths of the school budget, they said, adding that the department must pay health insurance costs, special needs education costs, and automatic raises based on teachers' seniority and coursework...
...followed just such a pattern, all the more regrettably because her first act was so full of energy % and promise. Fresh from a Colorado upbringing, she married Poet Robert Lowell and at 29 published the best seller Boston Adventure. Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel of troubles, many self-inflicted. By the time her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, she had long since fallen silent as a fiction writer and would remain so right up to her death, at 63, in 1979. David Roberts' workmanlike biography generously quotes Stafford...
...routine experiments with the two Mir cosmonauts, who are spending a year in space. Lyakhov, 47, and Mohmand, 29, an Afghan pilot, had returned to the two-stage Soyuz capsule for the three-hour trip back to the Soviet Union, leaving Physician Valeri Polyakov behind to continue monitoring the health of the station crew...
...worst cases, offer huge loan guarantees to make the transactions virtually risk free. In Gibson's deal the Bank Board agreed to provide $1.3 billion in guarantees and other assistance that will allow the investors a decade to return their newly merged S and Ls to financial health...
...method, or Billings mucus method, which was introduced by and named for an Australian Catholic couple in the 1970s. Using it, a woman carefully monitors changes in her cervical mucus to determine when she is ovulating, and thus capable of conceiving a child. A 1976 study by the World Health Organization concluded that the Billings method compares favorably with artificial means in effectiveness at preventing conception...