Word: partnering
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...make either sex superior or inferior to the other. In fact, he explicitly denied the superiority of man. Presenting the analogy of a factory, the Imam said that a man is like the "security guard" of his family, while a woman acts as "manager." In different circumstances, a different partner takes the lead. The Crimson's article also omitted one of Imam Hosein's cardinal points: that the foremost quality needed in marriage is platonic love, and after that, mutual kindness...
TIME economics correspondent Suneel Ratan says the real APEC action may have been Clinton's buttering-up of China, the big engine fueling the Asian economic explosion and arguably APEC's most important partner. The Chinese are "going to be like Japan, but outstrip our Japanese problem by an order of magnitude," Ratan says. The APEC summit, he adds, lays groundwork for serious negotiations with China on what it really wants: entry into the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) sooner than 2020. Not discussed: China's human rights record, which Clinton separated from renewal of China's Most...
...process begins with an examination of follicles, the tiny sacs in the ovary where eggs are found. Fertility doctors ordinarily focus on large follicles -- nearly a half-inch wide -- that contain mature eggs. But Trounson's partner, Dr. Carl Wood, discovered that the latest ultrasound machines could spot follicles that are less than a tenth of an inch wide and hold immature eggs. Wood developed a way to pluck the young eggs out of the smaller follicles with a specially designed needle. Trounson, after experiments with cattle, devised a cell-culturing procedure that ripens the immature eggs in the laboratory...
While Fidel, 67, remains Cuba's ideologue of yesteryear, Raul, 63, has emerged as today's pragmatist. After the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 cost Havana its main trading partner, Fidel has only grudgingly opened the door to dollar-toting tourists and foreign investors, begun shrinking the army and bureaucracy, and allowed Cubans a taste of private enterprise. But monthly rations barely provide enough food for two weeks. The Cuban army, in touch with grass-roots sentiment through its conscripts and ties with local militias, started telling Raul of widespread grumbling among the hungry populace...
...Direct, has $6 million in revenues and 14 employees engaged in the business of putting multimedia catalogs and other marketing material on diskettes and CD-ROMs. To keep up with the workload, Zyontz and Trink two years ago brought in computer expert and psychologist Jeff Friedman as a third partner...