Word: pilling
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...while at Greate Bay, it looked like Klein would have to swallow the tough pill of finishing his senior season without a win. The wind played havoc with his drives, his puts weren’t falling, nothing came easily...
...that he hadn't "had time to make the calculation" of its size. Heinz-Werner Meier, Aventis' HR chief in Germany , told German daily Die Welt that the payout was "absolutely customary by international standards, and even at the low end in the U.S. " Even so, it's a pill that some shareholders are finding hard to swallow. - By Peter Gumbel No More Bale-Outs In the first ever challenge to a wealthy nation's domestic agricultural handouts, the WTO ruled illegal the billions of dollars in federal subsidies paid to U.S. cotton farmers. Meanwhile, the E.U. said it would...
...most common surgical procedures in the United States, and can be done quickly and safely with relatively simple technology. And the more widely abortion is available, the more likely the percentage of early-term abortions will go up and late-term abortions go down. The emergency contraceptive pill, a pill that can be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the wall of the uterus, is an even more promising way of enabling women to prevent pregnancy before it has technically begun. Late-term abortions are generally done only in cases when...
Almost 45 years later, we still can’t seem to shake our nation’s sexually conservative agenda. A pending bill in Missouri would allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill on moral grounds and similar legislation was introduced in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington this past year. Meanwhile, the Colorado state legislature recently decided that medical care providers should not be required to inform rape victims that emergency contraception is available to them. And in Virginia, the state legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit the health clinics...
What makes over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill all the more important now is that it would render many of these restrictive measures moot and keep these morality demagogues out of a woman’s personal family planning decisions. Yet the FDA seems more concerned with how this policy will affect teen sex rates rather than how it could reduce teen pregnancy rates. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine condemns the FDA for allowing “political considerations” to delay their decision on this issue...