Word: methodic
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...about the complexities of modern-day parenthood. The letter T indicates the woman is thinking about having a baby on her own. A signals that she is attempting to get pregnant. P announces that she has succeeded. M is for mother. The second letter on the tag flags her method of choice. I means donor insemination. N specifies a sex partner. A stands for adoption...
...hormone-replacement therapy to combat osteoporosis and other effects of menopause, many questions remain about how this treatment might alter the risks of breast cancer and heart disease. Says Guinan: "As doctors, we think we're helping women when we may actually be harming them." Meanwhile, no new contraceptive method has been approved in the U.S. since the 1960s. Overall, the NIH spends only 13% of its $7.7 billion budget on women's health issues, < according to the Women's Caucus...
...addition, the proposed law would place limits on the total amount of money state agencies, departments and authorities could spend on consultants each year. Subsidiary provisions would also establish a method for these entities to gradually come into compliance with the new spending limits and would give authority to the state secretary of administration and finance, on request, to permit some spending in excess of the new limits. The proposed law would also require state agencies, departments and Authorities as well as the secretary of administration and finance to submit yearly reports concerning the state's consultant contracts to certain...
...raids are an anomaly in recent U.S. history. Rarely are American armed forces used against its own citizens. This strategy begs us to ask whether some other less excessive method could be used to combat the domestic drug industry--and makes us question why the President hasn't sought such a plan...
Corey taught a generation of chemists to think like those chess masters who start with their vision of a winning board position and then work backward. His method for breaking down compounds, bond by bond, into smaller and smaller components is so rigorously logical that it can be taught to a computer, although Corey says it will be some time before chemistry has the equivalent of a computerized Kasparov...