Word: statuses
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...status quo won't be easy to change, largely because evidence-based medicine often runs counter to our personal understanding of risk. It's intuitively difficult for a woman in her 40s to stop getting annual mammograms when she is fully aware that they could save her life. Feeding this instinct is the relentless effort on the part of doctors and disease advocacy groups to promote preventive-health behaviors. Many feel the push may have done the public a disservice by instilling the belief that screenings are purely beneficial. "We have not rounded out that discussion with the American public...
...contrast with Orwell, however, is that Lu Xun threw in his lot with the communists late in life. This meant that he became one of those rare Chinese writers from the pre-1949 era whose stories stayed in print and whose essays remained in textbooks. That special status has also meant that the work of virtually all current Chinese authors owes a debt of some kind to the stories in the Penguin collection. Jiang Rong readily admits, for example, that Wolf Totem was inspired in part by Lu Xun's writings. And though Zhu Wen denies this kind of link...
...right schools and the right families, who staked out politics as their exclusive domain. In 1997, a former Health Minister offered a glimpse of prevailing attitudes in Tokyo's men's club when he referred to women as "babymaking machines." Still relatively few in number and junior in status, women are unlikely to have much of an immediate impact on the Diet. But their influx has unquestionably added a dash of diversity - and perhaps will instill some social conscience and sensitivity to the concerns of working-class Japan. "Many came from local legislatures and some have experience in civil movements...
...that is because it draws heavily on the successful counterinsurgency tactics learned the hard way in Iraq. Regardless, since the start of Obama’s strategic review three months ago, a large number of Democrats in particular have been critical of any plan that involves moving from the status quo toward any more American involvement in Afghanistan. They seem to have forgotten that, during his presidential campaign, Obama stressed that Afghanistan was a battle worth fighting and one that should be a focus of any U.S. administration...
...adopt school turnaround plans that mimic those favored by the Education Department. On Nov. 30, the city's school board approved measures that would have the district employ each of the four turnaround strategies at various schools across the district. "We can't pretend that modest changes to the status quo are going to deliver significantly different results," says Denver superintendent Tom Boasberg, who has been on the job for a year since replacing former superintendent (now U.S. Senator) Michael Bennet...