Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe in the rule of law," Dershowitzsaid. "If someone is willing to subject themselvesto court proceeding, they ought to have a gooddefense...
...subject of human rights, Rehman likewise applies selective judgement. In this effort to apply "fundamental questions of justice," Rehman makes no mention of widespread human rights abuses perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority. Rehman correctly points out that human rights remain an international concern; it is for this reason that his highly selective condemnation is especially troubling, as it skews this terrible and complex conflict by portraying the issues in black and white, in terms of perpetrator and victim...
Along related lines, a brochure for Pfizer employees points out that while "jokes and puns are often used in conversation about sexual health topics...you can redirect humorous remarks to more appropriate discussion by not joining in the humor and pointing out the seriousness of the subject matter, reminding the people with whom you speak that ED is a significant medical condition that affects the lives of millions of men and their partners." This is true, of course. It also speaks to the tricky questions of taste and exploitation that Pfizer will have to navigate in marketing the drug...
...Cannata, a 43-year-old accountant from Springfield, Mass., has been taking Viagra for the past three years as a trial subject. He was suffering from partial impotence brought on, he believes, by years of bicycle riding (an activity, it should be noted, that is not universally held to be a cause of impotence). Cannata was able to achieve erections but felt that they "should have been stronger and much longer-lasting." Viagra worked for him the first time and has worked ever since. "Not only is the frequency of our sex greater," he says...
...rate, it's an emphasis that should remind us that human sexuality is far too rich and complex for the entire subject to be balanced on the delicate fulcrum of an erection. As with the debate in psychiatry between traditional talk therapists and their more pharmacologically minded colleagues, controversy over Viagra and its cousins may well provoke a rift among sex researchers. Raymond Rosen, a professor of psychiatry at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J., makes the obvious but necessary point that Viagra will not be the final word on sexual dysfunction or dissatisfaction: "There...