Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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First championed by women's groups in the early 1970s, when abortion was $ illegal in most states, menstrual extraction is a variation of the vacuum aspirations used in medical clinics. A thin plastic tube is first inserted through the cervix into the uterus. Then the uterine lining, along with an embedded fertilized egg, is suctioned out by pumping a syringe attached to the tubing. Proponents of the procedure insist that it is safe...
...then the public's tolerance for political infighting was wearing thin. At the same time, a government economic-reform plan had taken effect, causing food prices to shoot up dramatically. Solidarity leaders recognized that their movement would suffer if it stood by while the economy spiraled out of control...
...injured in last week's incidents, but the mechanical glitches renewed concern about whether maintenance crews that are stretched thin can maintain an adequate margin of safety. Not only do federal rules require modifications on thousands of older jets but the airlines are expanding their fleets with new, technically complicated planes. The ATA report, based on a survey of 21 major airlines, found that carriers have been unable to find mechanics for 4,000 vacancies out of a total of 69,000 positions. More troubling, the number of applicants for mechanic's positions is declining...
THAT was before he travelled to the Sudan, before he saw real deprivation on a societal scale, embodied in one emaciated young girl. Later on, he recalled she was "a skeleton of a person with a thin layer of brown skin on her, who had just a faint breath of life...
With split-second timing, the rod tip is lifted and the battle begun. Since the fly is attached to the line with a gossamer-thin tippet, a fisherman must use the long, sensitive rod to tire the trout as it surges and runs, leaps and sometimes literally walks across the water's surface on its tail. There is no mistaking this magic. The fish explodes again, up through a silver shower of water, shaking its head in an effort to throw the hook. You notice the color. It is gorgeous, almost surreal. The trout's meaty flanks sport outrageous spots...