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Word: poore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right that in the course of just 15 years many Americans have come to regard as no less inalienable than freedom of religion or expression. It is a right exercised by 1.6 million U.S. women each year -- some rich, some poor; some barely out of childhood, some close to middle age; nearly a fifth married, the rest single. But in the eyes of many Americans, the right to abortion, established by the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade, is not a right at all, but a wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Abortion on The Ropes | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...narrow seat of a ten-speed bicycle can damage the arteries or the nerves," says urologist Irwin Goldstein of Boston University School of Medicine, who recently chaired an international conference on impotence research. But the vast majority of impotent men -- most are above age 55 -- are victims of poor habits or illness. Alcoholism, for example, can deaden nerves. Cigarette smoking can reduce blood flow to the penis by constricting vessels and causing the corpora cavernosa to lose elasticity. Diabetes, atherosclerosis and high blood pressure (and the medications used to treat it) can all have damaging effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: It's Not All in Your Head | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

...handlers: too green, too smug, too Harvard. They lost it on tactics, it seems: poor timing, shifting themes, lousy commercials, unreturned phone calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Why The Left Keeps Losing | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

Harvard (0-3) dropped a 75-54 decision to Lehigh in front of 1123 fans at Stabler Center, thanks in large part to the Crimson's own special type of gifts--turnovers and poor foul shooting in the second half...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Engineers Bombard M. Cagers | 12/3/1988 | See Source »

Both squads played sloppy basketball early on,with plenty of turnovers and poor passes. TheCrimson looked inside to freshman forward RonMitchell, who netted six of Harvard's first eightpoints, as Harvard tied the game at 5:31 into thegame...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: M. Cagers Drop Opener, Fall to Wildcats, 93-74 | 11/30/1988 | See Source »

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