Word: slough
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...taken by surprise this way is an Albright nightmare. The revelation came just as she was enjoying the moment she had worked for--and her parents had prepared her for--her entire life, a life spent leaving nothing to chance. "There are lots of smart people who kind of slough off, and it eventually catches up with them," she says. She is the girl who organized her neatly underlined notes in college into 15 different colored notebooks. She rises before dawn and stays up late, reading everything. She rehearses sound bites so they sound unrehearsed. "I do not believe that...
DIED. BERYL REID, 76, British actress who won acclaim in the 1960s role of the lesbian soap-opera star in both the stage and film versions of The Killing of Sister George; in Slough, England...
Progesterone pills can be particularly hard to tolerate. Progestin is always prescribed along with estrogen for women with an intact uterus. While estrogen prompts the uterine lining to thicken, progestin signals it to stop growing and slough off; this artificial menstrual cycle seems to prevent endometrial cancer. But progestin often causes cramps, irritability and other PMS-like problems. In her 1991 book on menopause, The Silent Passage, Gail Sheehy tells how estrogen highs and progestin lows made her feel as though her body was "at war with itself for half of every month...
DIED. JACK CLAYTON, 73, film director; from heart and liver trouble; in Slough, England. Clayton's work ranged from the unblinking social realism of Room at the Top (1959), for which he received an Oscar nomination, to the supernatural period gloom of The Innocents...
...more effective when used in conjunction with the drug misoprostol, which helps the uterine lining slough off by inducing muscle contractions...