Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Minority women have shorter life expectancies and are less likely to receive adequate prenatal care than white women. Black women, in particular, have the highest rates of death from cerebrovascular disease, and while breast cancer death rates have declined among white women, they have increased for black women, center officials said...
Sprague declined comment, saying, "I'mprohibited by the cannons of ethics from sayinganything about [any] particular case...
Like many little boys in the tricycle years, Mike Terry of Evanston, Ill., loved things that go vroom. Cars in particular. But as he grew older, his fascination didn't fade; it just shifted into higher gear. At age 9, he had a transcendent experience: the Chicago Auto Show, 10 hours of "heaven on earth." From that day on, recalled Mike, now 13, in a seventh-grade paper, "the auto show has been named a 'religious holiday' in the Terry family...
Walker warned women of European descent in the audience that they must overcome a particular burden in their quest for sexual freedom...
...This Desire? grows a bit tired in its third quarter, which the structure of Harvey's 2,000-mile framework probably demands, but which nonetheless threatens the totality of the record's spell. "The River" in particular suffers from an inertia rare for Harvey. Its loping murmur is appropriate to the title image, and it's fun to hear her tinkering with brass, but a rather rote delivery ("And they came from the river/and they came to the road") and subjective vagueness (who is "they," and why does it become "we"?) make the song tiresome and opaque...