Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well. Why? The critical question is. Whom will we trust to censor communications and decide which ones are "too offensive" or "too inflammatory" or "too devoid of intellectual content?" Past experience suggests that the task of censorship often falls into the hands of people who eventually begin to suppress communications that others consider worthwhile. Besides, should we not trust the members of our community to decide for themselves whether ideas are good or bad instead of allowing someone else to shield them from pernicious thoughts? As a former president of the University of California once said "The University...
Other surveys have found that such athletic women as distance runners, dancers and joggers can suffer temporary infertility. The reason is that their body fat sometimes becomes too low for the production of the critical hormone estrogen. Stress can also suppress ovulation; women executives often miss two or three consecutive menstrual periods...
...lost a $5 million palimony suit against Bloomingdale two years ago, said he had bludgeoned her with her son's baseball bat to "help her sleep." But when his trial opened last month, Pancoast, 34, pleaded not guilty. His lawyers accused unknown persons of killing Morgan to suppress videotapes that allegedly showed her having sex not only with Bloomingdale, a Reagan adviser and former head of Diners Club, but also with several high-ranking Government officials...
...under the brand name Zovirax, has been available in ointment form since 1982. "This is not a cure," emphasizes Virologist Stephen Straus, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who directed one of the studies. But, he notes, "nothing in the past has been able to suppress recurring herpes...
...disapproval, but, given their more pressing concern for the free speech of scheduled speakers--in this case Weinberger--officials also felt no qualms threatening to discipline two of the hecklers. With some of her older children, however, Mother Harvard faces a still trickier problem; how should the University defend, suppress or ignore the political words or actions of its faculty...