Word: smear
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...SMEAR" FOR THE BREAST Since most breast tumors seem to originate in the milk ducts, why not just remove fluid from the ducts and check the cells for signs of abnormal growth? (That's basically the strategy doctors and other health-care providers use during a Pap smear to check the cervix for signs of abnormal growth before the cells become dangerous.) If there is a problem, so the theory goes, it could be traced to a particular duct, which would then be carefully monitored for signs of malignancy. One major drawback: seemingly abnormal results can be triggered by changes...
...withdrew from the Family Circle Cup in support of the South Carolina boycott 32. Bayh, who's on everyone's short list for the Veep slot 33. Measure of profitability: Abbr. 34. Appear 36. Place for trash 37. 2000 Masters winner 39. Car in a 1964 hit song 40. Smear 42. Third World leaders recently concluded a summit here 44. Volunteers have begun an attempt to move a three-ton stone from here to Stonehenge 45. Eighth Greek letter 46. New Zealand is scrapping the use of this title 47. It's occasionally lied about down...
...being hailed as a genius by the winners and a cynical villain by the losers. The communists, who claim the March 26 polls were corrupted, say Pavlovsky fixed Putin's first-round win, just as a few months ago aides to Yevgeni Primakov accused Pavlovsky of a devastating smear campaign against their man and his main ally, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. His admirers are equally categorical. Pavlovsky was quite simply "the brains of the campaign," says Alexander Oslon, another key player in the Putin election team...
...Maria Smear, the league's best three-point shooter, and Kelly Denit, who tops the conference in assists, Yale is fully capable of mustering...
...elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems like a huge smear campaign against Range Rovers and Pajeros--the characters who drive them are spoiled, corrupt, evil, stoned, sometimes all of the above...