Word: refrained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States urges Burmese military authorities immediately to cease shooting at demonstrators and calls upon those demonstrating to refrain from provocative actions," White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said...
...Catholic Church teaches that no outside agent, be it pill, diaphragm or condom, can be used to prevent conception, which is the "natural" end of sexual intercourse. But a couple may licitly refrain from conjugal relations during a woman's fertile period, which usually lasts ten to twelve days during each menstrual cycle. The improved way of precisely determining those days is known as the ovulation method, or Billings mucus method, which was introduced by and named for an Australian Catholic couple in the 1970s. Using it, a woman carefully monitors changes in her cervical mucus to determine when...
When the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) released a report last spring highly critical of the University's record in hiring minority faculty members, administrators and affirmative action officials responded with a familiar refrain: it's a problem with the national pool...
...defining it every single day. But you know what I don't hear? I don't hear the refrain "How are you going to distance yourself from the President?" anymore. One reason is, I'm defining in specific speeches and position papers what I'll do. Some of it might be totally compatible with what the President has done and said. But there are some differences: opening up the tax structure, drug czar, ethics program, a little different emphasis on the specifics of education. This is what George Bush wants...
FACE-LIFT. Edward Kennedy, finally looking 20 lbs. lighter and free of the burden of presidential speculation. His speech lacked the soaring "The dream shall never die" high of 1980, but his antiphonal "Where was George?" may become the refrain of the Democratic campaign...