Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Romans had it easy. The Latin language was so incomprehensible that only a few elderly senators and epic poets could actually speak it. The body of the populace, therefore, had no trouble deciding whether to call a female college student "girl" or "woman"; they just grunted and pointed...
Twenty minutes later, hoping I had learned my lesson, I told another high school friend about this "woman." "Get off it!" she responded. "Why are you foisting so much maturity on us before we're ready? We're girls...
Distance runner Suzanne Jones earned All-America honors by placing fifth in the 5000-meter run. Her time of 16:09.74 is the second fastest time ever run by a Harvard woman...
...only moderate amounts of protein. Americans should meet the Recommended Daily Allowance -- 0.8 g per kg of ideal body weight for adults -- but not exceed twice that level. Since an ounce of lean ground beef has about 8 g of protein, a 120-lb. woman fulfills her entire protein requirement with a 5.6- oz. hamburger, and a 180-lb. man with an 8.4-oz. patty...
Some couples are bitter about their experience with IVF. One 29-year-old woman in Dallas underwent several unsuccessful IVF attempts at a total cost of some $17,000. She complains that her doctor never told her that his success rate had dropped from 25% to 5% or that the clinic's new embryologist had never helped produce a birth. Says the woman: "I put trust in people, and that doesn't work. I have this desire so bad for a baby, I would do anything to make it work, and I find out I've been ripped...