Word: prior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some risks in having sex," says Dr. Dan Bowers, a senior partner in Pacific Oaks Medical Group in Beverly Hills, Calif., one of the country's largest private practices treating the HIV/AIDS community. Based on results of lab studies that suggest ARVs may confer some protective benefit when taken prior to virus exposure, some people have begun self-administering the drugs like a morning-after pill, in the hopes that the drugs' pre-exposure prophylactic benefits may apply after unsafe...
...details, however, De Monfreid is as unreliable as a $20 gram of weed. He claims, for instance, never to have heard of hashish prior to commencing his trade in it. This is nonsense. It was the stuff of daily social intercourse in North Africa at the time. And how could an erudite, well-traveled Frenchman who alludes throughout his book to canonical authors and works - from Homer to Boccaccio to fellow French writers like Dumas and Molière - not have been familiar with Baudelaire's 19th century writings about drugs, hashish in particular? One can only speculate that...
...need to spend money recruiting, outfitting and training new troops; the cost of getting a new recruit - before he or she even arrives at basic training - has risen from $15,000 to $21,000 over the past five years. The share of new recruits - those without military prior service - with high-school diplomas...
...panic. Your risk of inheriting the cancer mutation is low, but if anyone in your immediate family has developed pre-cancerous polyps, it might be worthwhile to pursue genetic testing. As for routine screening, people with a family history of colon cancer should get colonoscopies staring 10 years prior to the youngest case of colon cancer in the family. For the general population, doctors recommend a colonoscopy starting at age 50 and every 5 to 10 years thereafter...
...Lewis, 60, insists that he bought Countrywide for his shareholders, not the greater good. "In no way did any government agency call us prior to encourage us," he says. "I can't say they weren't glad that...