Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works by adhering to certain hormone receptors in the uterus that under normal circumstances accept progesterone, the substance that prepares the uterine lining to receive a fertilized egg. Because the presence of RU 486 blocks the action of progesterone, the uterine lining sloughs off, and the embryo is expelled, as an unfertilized egg is during a normal period. Although bleeding is usually heavier than during menstruation, only a pregnancy test prior to receiving the drug will tell a woman for certain whether she has actually conceived...
...reality, we live in several times at once, including yours. Perhaps because we have come to expect eruptive change as normal, we are less enthralled by it than we once were, and so choose an hour or an era in which we privately live irrespective of the insistent present. Modernism is committed to turmoil and revolution, but we have grown tired of the steady diet. The result is a sensibility that roves easily back into one's parents' more stately generation, and forward into the future where the imagination revels. Such range allows the mind a curious and salutary independence...
Other than not testifying, North went about trying to maintain a normal life and huddling with his lawyer Brendan Sullivan. North maintained his good- humored equanimity, and when a photographer corralled him with his wife Betsy and one of his daughters while they looked at Christmas trees, North was obliging. "Is there no escape from you guys?" he asked with a weary smile as he posed. He left without buying a tree...
Nine days later Athletic Director Bob Hitch and Football Coach Bobby Collins quit. Their resignations seemed normal in such circumstances, but there was irony in Shields' departure. Since his arrival in 1980, he had pushed academic improvement as well as big-time football, adding 21 endowed chairs. This year SAT scores of incoming students rose to 1,100 from last year's respectable 1,020. But Shields' rejuvenated professoriat, says Faculty Senate President Leroy Howe, "is less tolerant of academic abridgments. They see it as a fundamental compromise of the institution...
...kept him out of competitive hockey until he was 10," says Frank Chiarelli. "Peter's normal development took place after that...