Word: properous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drugs act in a similar manner, by interfering with the hormone progesterone, which maintains a proper uterine environment for pregnancy. Epostane prevents the ovaries from making progesterone; RU 486 blocks the hormone's activity. In both cases, the uterine lining sloughs off and the embryo is expelled...
...agree that John F. Kennedy "won" his 1960 debate with Richard Nixon not on substantive issues, but because Nixon showed up on national television looking pale and nervous. The 1976 debate between Ford and Carter is remembered, not for its arguments over the state of the economy or the proper U.S. role in world affairs, but rather for Ford's strange assertion that Poland was not under Soviet domination. A mere reassuring phrase from candidate Reagan, "there you go again," was enough to stave off an issue-oriented Carter attack...
...suggest to any Overseer that divestment is not a proper subject for discussion by the Overseers or that it should not be considered by them at their meeting last year. It is, in my view, an appropriate subject for discussion and advice to the Corporation. I did express the opinion that simply voting on the issue, as some people were advocating, was not the best way for the Overseers to advise the Corporation or to resolve possible differences between the Governing Boards on the issue of divestment...
Stephens maintains that proper procedures werefollowed, no committee members objected to hernomination, and succession from vice president topresident is not automatic. Gifune said thecommittee even told Fox Tree, who served on thecommittee that nominated Gifune as presidentseveral years ago, that he would be considered forthe top post next year...
...Luddite, baying at change." And then he is off and running. "The screen is the most visible symbol of our high-tech age, and here it is, plunked down in this ancient coliseum. It's only been around for ten years or so. We need to determine its proper venue...