Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love one another as Malaysians. We don't need the media to disrupt our peaceful country with their coverage and play havoc with our multiracial feelings! We know ourselves best, so let us manage our country out of these economic woes. Mahathir may be a bit too blunt and straightforward in conveying his thoughts, but he is right on some points. Think about the economic havoc caused by the financial speculators who are responsible for the suffering of countries like ours. NORIDA ABD RAHMAN Alor Setar, Malaysia...
...guaranteed to make intelligent theater-music fans prick up their ears. There's only one catch: Way Back to Paradise contains scenes, arias, and even full-blown art songs. But nostalgia-hungry listeners will search in vain among these determinedly theatrical post-Sondheim musical monologues for anything resembling the straightforward, crisply turned lyrics and incisive 32-bar melodies that for decades defined American popular music at its best...
...tamoxifen to include women who don't have the disease but are at high risk of developing it. The panel did not endorse the idea, however, that tamoxifen actually "prevents" breast cancer, saying only that it might help reduce the risk over the short term. In the second, more straightforward decision, the panel urged approval of herceptin, a gene-based treatment for some forms of advanced breast cancer...
...gives them. Behavioral geneticists have learned that identical twins reared together are scarcely more alike than identical twins reared apart. This and other data suggest that the "shared environment" of siblings--including the overall household atmosphere and child-rearing tenets that parents apply to all their kids--have little straightforward effect on personality...
...closely the number of women athletes. The number of full scholarships grew from 0 (yes, zero) in 1972 to nearly 20,000 in 1997. According to Charles Yesalis, a professor of sports science and senior author of the Penn State report, many young women view steroid use as a straightforward investment in their future. "Most of the time, after you stop taking steroids, you won't go back to ground zero," he explains. "If you keep working out, you could hang on to 80% of your gains." Aspiring athletes can take the hormones for a few months in high school...