Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particular, Jaeger said, the University has not yet agreed to a system for compensating casual laborers who have worked more than the maximum number of hours in the past...
...cared for their $225 million lawn ornament. Certainly, it's an impressive-looking thing; measuring nearly 400 ft. from its needly nose to its four stubby fins, it was designed on a scale more commonly associated with buildings than machines. The problem is, it's been decades since this particular machine actually stood to its full height. Instead, it has spent most of its life lying on its side in the withering Houston sun--beached, spent, a triumph less of engineering than of taxidermy...
This sweet, sweet victory was very much an act of faith--not the end of a game so much as of a crusade. The U.S. women were good, they were good looking, and they were on a mission to prove that women's team sports, and soccer in particular, deserve the same kind of attention, admiration and money that the guys' get. "I grew up watching Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, men I could never emulate," says Julie Foudy, the thoughtful, funny midfielder who leads the team in quotes. "Girls need role models." The goal of Women's World...
...people to load up on the nutritional supplement beta carotene in the early 1990s. Scientists noted that those who eat lots of fruits and vegetables tend to get less cancer and speculated that carotenoids--the same antioxidant substances that seem to protect against heart disease--were responsible. In particular, they focused on beta carotene, the most abundant and common carotenoid, as the most likely to prevent cancer...
...Portable state-of-the-art medical equipment, sophisticated planes and modern computer links have made this medical mission possible," says TIME senior writer Jeffrey Kluger, "but it is only the intrepidness of the jet crew and the woman that will make it work." The woman, in particular, faces huge challenges. If a biopsy is called for, says Kluger, "she may have to do things herself that would make anyone skittish." These could include inserting a needle into her own breast tissue, staining the cells and interpreting the results. "These are things that would be hard enough to go through...