Word: versa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexually transmitted diseases. In 1992, the number of women with AIDS climbed 9.8 percent, while the number of men climbed only 2.5 percent. Various studies have shown that it may be anywhere from seven to 18 times easier for a man to infect a woman than vice versa...
...Safire and Rush Limbaugh, silent during the Reagan-Bush years, have more than picked up the slack with Clinton in the White House, When these journalists try to dig up dirt, their targets are almost always on the other side of the political spectrum. Liberals investigate conservatives, and vice versa. Those who complain of a bias in the media can only be justified if they are referring to the former section; and no conclusive of basis in the factual reporting section has been put forth...
...years. But geophysicists have realized for years that while the cycles are real, and influence climate, they alone cannot explain ice ages. For one thing, Milankovitch's timing of glaciation may be broadly correct, but major glacial episodes happen when his cycles call for minor ones, and vice versa...
...production of Orton's What the Butler Saw. In the script, Orton's cleverness, if not outright genius, stands unquestioned. He has a keen knack for dramatizing many of his favorite themes by "inverting" the common knowledge, wherein the normal--progressively through the show--becomes the abnormal and vice versa. His brilliant farce of late 60s English society leaves nothing sacred, not even the phallus of Winston Churchill...
...flight, some critics say it should become a thing of the past. The shuttle and the space station together eat up fully half NASA's budget, diverting resources from what the critics consider more useful programs. Yet the main justification for the shuttle is the space station, and vice versa. Supporters of manned space shots note that the Hubble could never have been repaired without human hands; opponents argue that without NASA's insistence that the telescope be launched by shuttle, the instrument could have gone up in the late 1970s, at a fraction of its eventual cost and into...