Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sohad explained, had decided to stop after two children because of the expense of raising a large family. Ahmad's 20-year-old daughter Nadia also has two children, and she too says she wants no more. In fact, the only difference in their family-planning strategies is the method of contraception: injections of the drug Depo-Provera for the mother and an IUD for the daughter...
Jimmygate demonstrates the need for greater accountability for situations in which Harvard students are entrusted with such large sums of money. Harvard needs to develop some method for making sure that students with control over organization funds use their money responsibly and don't plunder those treasuries for personal benefit...
...movie is a replay of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, a bloody study of macho alienation and Method posturing. Jean-Hugues Anglade, the French star of Betty Blue, La Femme Nikita and the forthcoming Queen Margot, bites off huge chunks of scenery as the nutty gang leader; his performance is a great geyser of bad acting...
...population conference may have reached a broad consensus on the issue of abortion -- but the Vatican is not likely to sign off on it. The new text places priority on making family planning available to reduce the need for abortions. It says abortion should not be encouraged as a method of family planning and its legality should be left to individual countries. Tim Wirth, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs, told TIME senior writer Eugene Linden that most countries had signed on to the compromise language. "We won," Wirth told Linden Thursday night. Still, many delegates are furious...
...companion in blondness is Aaron Zelman as Freddy Fellowes, a well-meaning method actor who can only be described as dumb. Zelman compels mention of the film version of "Noises Off." His characterization of Freddy is unmistakably like Christopher Reeves' in the same role. Freddy craves motivation for his every movement on stage, prompting Lloyd into a deadpan Freudian probe of Freddy's character's relationship with groceries...