Word: rigor
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That kind of rigor makes the new findings particularly important. The study not only found a link between abortion or miscarriage and low birth weight, but it also found that the risk appears to increase with every subsequent miscarriage or abortion. The accruing risk, says co-author Tilahun Adera at Virginia Commonwealth University, suggests that termination of pregnancy is a true cause of low birth weight and preterm birth rather than a variable associated with such conditions. "It's not just an association," he says. "The risk of premature birth increases with the increasing number of abortions...
...wanted to fill in some of the areas about why I had wanted to come to Harvard and why I thought I could handle the rigor of it now, when I couldn’t before,” she said, referring to her withdrawal from Phillips Exeter...
...against another colorful maverick, the incumbent Ken Livingstone, a wily and resilient left-winger who has introduced tolls for cars entering central London and is now promising to boost the capital's stock of affordable housing. Johnson has not yet revealed his own manifesto, but speaks of increased "financial rigor" and an admiration for the education policies of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He sums up his political philosophy in a pithy phrase: "less bossiness, more incentives," explaining, "I'm a libertarian. I think people should get on and run their lives as far as possible independently of bossiness...
...begun to reexamine its connection to the University, hiring more non-alums and focusing on covering current events rather than engaging in more theoretical debates. Yet however the magazine changes, editors and writers promise that “The Atlantic” will always retain the intellectual rigor of the institution where it grew...
...What about the Japanese aesthetic inspires you? I've always been inspired by the Asian aesthetic. On it's own, Japanese minimalism can be too severe, but there is a certain spirit, a rigor and a love of sophistication here that has always inspired me. I love the colors and the shapes you see in Japan...