Word: interrupts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Health Organization officials and local experts made a nine-hour river trip to the inland village, both to help contain the epidemic and to learn more about the virus that causes it. "If we can understand how the virus is transmitted from the wild, we might be able to interrupt it," explains Dr. David Heymann, head of the emerging-diseases division...
...have any other choice but to interrupt the flight. We have always been too patient, excessively tolerant...
Carol became pregnant while a sophomore in college but felt she didn't want to interrupt her education. In that year, 1983, there were 435 abortions for every 1,000 births, and she was part of those statistics. Her own mother quit school and got married when she found she was pregnant. In fact, it was her father who insisted on "giving the baby a name...
There used to be another name for those programs: parents. And so family breakdown feeds poverty, which feeds more family breakdown. To interrupt that diabolical cycle, devoted fathers are crucial. That's one part of the equation that federal programs have neglected. But even the most devoted dads can't get jobs where there are none or start a business where there's no start-up capital-problems that conservatives pay lip service to at best. "You can't solve these problems on individual transformation alone,'' warns Harvard University professor and author Cornel West...
...point, a particularly testy exchange flared up after Domenici and Tyson got into what senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl called a "gloves-off discussion over Medicare and Medicaid cuts." When Tyson interrupted Domenici, the New Mexico Senator snapped, "I did not interrupt you, and you spoke for 14 minutes!" The tension subsided only after Sinai took the opportunity to remind his fellow panelists that in economics, discourse and disagreement often go hand in hand. "If we laid all the economists from end to end," he said, "they would not reach the same conclusion." That was one point on which even...