Word: resorted
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...promoting abortion might find it especially advisable to respect pro-life activism. What does the pro-choice movement have to fear from people offering women other options? The legitimacy of the pro-choice cause can only be helped by taking the stance that abortion should be a last resort instead of a form of birth control or lifestyle maintenance. In the struggle to make abortion "safe, legal and rare," the rhetoric used to justify the first two objectives tends to trivialize the moral reasons for the third, creating the impression that "pro-choice" means "pro-abortion...
...most of their 30 year history, the California Angels have made their home in the quiet desert resort town of Palm Springs, Calif...
Perot's tendency to resort to vague rhetoric allows him to get away with misstatements that are only rarely challenged publicity. For example, during his congressional testimony he ludicrously asserted that no one in Clinton's administration "has ever run a business or created a job, far as I know...
...such a tenure offer. In fact, it demeans the professor who would ultimately receive such a tenure offer. In fact, it demeans all potential Latino faculty members, who should be chosen for the quality of their scholarship, not merely their ethnic background. Any attempt to increase diversity must not resort to such extremes...
Still, toolmaking does not entirely explain why apes, humans and other animals developed big brains. Gorillas, orangutans and bonobos are roughly the intellectual peers of chimps but rarely resort to tool use. Nor does the need to build tools fully account for the enormous expansion of human brainpower during the past million years. As recently as 100,000 B.C., Homo sapiens were using only the crudest tools, even though their brains had already reached the present size -- large enough to put men on the moon, probe the basis of matter and tinker with the genetic code. Because big brains need...