Word: thicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glass column containing a solution of albumin, a sticky protein normally present in such bodily fluids as blood and semen. After an hour, more Y-containing sperm than sluggish Xs should have sped to the bottom. The Y sperm are further concentrated by being run through increasingly thicker solutions of albumin. "It's like making them run the Boston Marathon with overshoes on," says Ericsson. The prospective mother is then artificially inseminated with the Y-concentrated sperm. Ericsson claims that of 146 women who became pregnant by this method at clinics licensed by Gametrics, 112 bore males-a success...
...Everything's changed. I could buy the restaurant now." Slowly he mentioned the names of some of those responsible for the success of the civil rights movement in their various contradictory ways: Martin Luther King Jr., George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, Lester Maddox . . . The voice was muffled and much thicker than one had prayed. He spoke as if he had a handkerchief in his mouth. I suggested that maybe throwing the Olympic medal off the bridge had helped in that cause too? He did not comment...
...Charlie (Mickey Rourke) risks all for his rather dim witted cousin Paulie (Eric Roberts) is more complicated than the simple "blood runs thicker than water" explanation the more mature Charlie often gives. The subtle depths to the duo's relationship is constantly revealed throughout the film, made exquisitely palpable by the two leads. Rourke puts in a superb performance as the more stable Charlie, a man in his mid-twenties with extravagant tastes, especially for natty suits and a greased hair-do. He already has a son by a previous marriage and dreams of owning his own restaurant some...
...have spruced up some of their rooms to pursue a segment of the population that seldom flinches at business downturns or high prices. Says Analyst Daniel R. Lee of Drexel Burnham Lambert: "It doesn't cost that much more to offer this. It takes a fluffier towel, a thicker carpet and a little better service. For that, these hotels charge a pretty hefty premium...
...BLOOD IS TRULY THICKER than water, then for working-class families struggling daily to make ends meet, the blood ought to coagulate with the exceptional tenacity. Sometime in a young man's evolving life--perhaps when sitting around listening to his parents rehash the good old days of labor unionism, perhaps when receiving his first summer job through his union head dad welding iron ore--a bell rings in his head and a credo resounds loud and clear: the only two loyalties in life that count are union and family, and so long as those two pillars of institutionalism remain...