Word: oral
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Homework commands three hours a night. For those who do not leave the academic track for a technical one, the system culminates in a stiff national baccalaureat, composed of four-hour tests in each subject and an oral final. On average, only 67% of students who take the exam-mandatory for acceptance to college-manage to pass...
Sallan and two other researchers were the first to demonstrate scientifically the nausea-controlling effect of marijuana in a study published in 1975 that compared patients who received THC, an oral derivative of marijuana, to those who received placebos, Sallan said...
...Rutgers University professor recently discovered a new oral contraceptive he claims produces none of the side effects of the conventional pill...
...discoverer, Dr. Harry Kent, associate professor at the Bureau of Biological Research at Rutgers, said yesterday the drug is made up of four amino acids and could provide "a safe oral contraceptive that could theoretically be taken only once a month...
Most observers believe the Supreme Court's ruling on Bakke, expected next year, will not be broad enough to encompass all reverse-discrimination cases. In last week's oral arguments, at least four Justices indicated that the case could be decided on narrow grounds, i.e., limited to Bakke alone. The case could be sent back to California courts because the record is inadequate (as a much argued over Justice Department brief urged), or the court might rule that a limited state or federal law governed the case. As Justice William Brennan reminded Attorney Colvin, "Ordinarily...