Word: painless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure not to change your study card after it's been filed ($15) or, worse, file it late ($30 a week). Also, don't forget to keep your keys, athletic sticker, and athletic ticket books on your person at all times--preferably through a painless surgical procedure--because it will set you back $10 for Harvard to grumble and snap and conjure up replacements from their cartloads of duplicate supplies. It would seem sensible to copy your keys at Dickson Brothers for $1.50, but then, it's against the rules...
...world with fateful inevitability. Yet, despite spreading signs of scarcity, most government leaders in the U.S., Europe and Japan paid little heed to calls from oilmen for urgent measures to expand energy resources and curb waste. Instead, they chose to believe that there was time to formulate some painless strategy to avert a genuine global emergency...
...test, called chorionic villi sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the procedure on an ultrasound monitor, helps the obstetrician position the catheter between the lining of the uterus and the chorion, a layer of tissue that surrounds the embryo during the first two months and later develops into the placenta. The goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi...
...appear ready to do, and if the French avoid direct involvement in the conflict, Habré's government will surely fall. On the other hand, if Gaddafi should decide to keep his troops in northern Chad, the country could face de facto partition. That might be a relatively painless solution to the present crisis, but it would set a dangerous precedent for an unstable continent where the rule has long been to honor the boundaries inherited from colonial times. -By William E. Smith. Reported by John Borrell/N'Djamena and Thomas A. Sancton/Paris
...other investment action have failed or are ineffective. Support of shareholder resolutions for fair labor practices was the policy adopted in 1978. This relatively painless policy produced few results the University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility eventually rejected this course, noting that resolutions opposed by management very rarely pass. Harvard's action, therefore, has not changed corporate policy, or had any effect an apartheid. Other non-investment programs proposed by President Bok, such as increasing educational opportunities for Black South Africans, while commendable, are almost as ineffective. President Bok admits these failures. Under existing policy, he writes, "there is little...