Word: pill
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Certainly, Thatcherism is a bitter pill to swallow for liberals in the U.K., but at this point there is nothing else on the table. The currently obsolete Labor Party, which has flirted with socialism and communism, finally received the as from an English public fed up with outlandish proposals about quitting the Common Market, nationalizing many prime industries and scrapping the country's military defenses...
...never tan should use sun screens in the 6-to-8 range; those who occasionally burn but tan well need only 4-to-8 protection; olive-complected Type IVs, who never get scorched, can manage with a factor of 2 to 4. In the future, however, a sunscreen pill being developed in Pathak's lab may make the lotions obsolete...
CONGRESS, at Reagan's urging, passed funding for the convenient MX. But that gullibility should not prevent it from acting on the more nearly solutions Scowcroft had to offer. After essentially reducing the MX to sugar for its recommendations, the Commission introduced a final pill which shouldn't be hard to swallow at all. The pill is Midgetman, a small, mobile missile with a single warhead that could be produced in large numbers, if needed, at relatively low cost. Such a non-threatening, land-based ICBM follows naturally from the Commission's argument that the "window of vulnerability" was never...
Mitterrand's decision to reappoint Mauroy involved a careful political calculation. Whatever his disadvantages, Mauroy is perhaps the one leader who can cajole the Socialist electorate into swallowing the bitter pill of belt tightening. He pushed through the unpopular wage and price freeze last year. For Mitterrand, there is also an advantage in having Mauroy absorb the unpopularity that the stringent new economic measures will generate. If Mauroy becomes too much of a drag on the party, the President can replace him before the next legislative elections, which are scheduled for 1986. Mitterrand thus has given Mauroy two years...
Like the birth-control pill, Depo-Provera works by disrupting the female hormonal cycle that normally leads to ovulation. The drug, which is injected, is a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone, similar to one of the two main ingredients of the birth-control pill. It does not, however, contain estrogen, and therefore does not seem to share the most serious drawbacks of the Pill: increased risk of abnormal blood clots and heart attacks. Depo-Provera can have less serious side effects that persist as long as it is in the bloodstream. Among them: weight gain, loss of sex drive...