Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That a healthy test-tube baby was born in an Ann Arbor, Mich., hospital last week is nothing so extraordinary; some 2,000 children conceived outside the womb have been born since 1978. But this particular little girl was born to a woman who is not her mother. Last summer a woman who could not carry a child had an egg fertilized by her husband's sperm in a laboratory. The embryo was then transferred to the womb of another woman...
...give incentive bows to orient students to any particular path," he says. "We don't have any school program whose intent is to encourage students to practice in any one area...
...decision to increase emphasis on social medicine was a positive step towards increased awareness, according to Ramos, but it wasn't part of a broad policy change. "I cannot say at this moment that this is a deliberate force of the curriculum. The curriculum is not particularly directive and it would not be in its tradition to be directive in one particular area," Ramos says...
...attention to this disturbing fact, and the packet thoughtfully includes a one page description of the University's current policy on South African investments. The packet also includes a letter from Joan T. Bok urging my participation in the election, and suggesting that election people interested in pressing a particular policy would drastically change the nature of the Board of Overseers (presumably for the worse) and might lead to the "casual" resolution of the vexing moral and financial problems posed by Harvard's South African investments. Ms. Bok also urges my careful consideration of the candidates...
Maybe it is some particular curse attached to me, but it seems such challenges always come at the worst possible times--like when I am hurrying to turn in my thesis, or walking to lunch with a professor. Why can't someone once try to start something with me when I'm at a team dinner, or cleaning my gun? They must break into University Hall and read my exam schedules and deadlines, for these are the only times they choose to make their attacks...