Word: cushions
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...include routine preventive care would improve Planned Parenthood's chances of negotiating contracts to service Health Maintenance Organizations. Planned Parenthood's services currently are limited to counseling, abortions, gynecological exams, pregnancy and breast cancer tests, and dispensing contraceptives. TIME senior correspondent Richard Ostling says the move could also help cushion Planned Parenthood against anticipated cuts in the government funding it receives for pregnancy-related services, since a number of anti-abortion legislators and governors were elected last November...
This isn't to say NAFTA caused the crash. In some ways it helped the peso, by attracting investment from the U.S. and elsewhere. But the pact didn't give Mexico the huge peso-protecting cushion that critics envisioned. It's true, as Perot will gladly remind you, that he actually predicted a post-NAFTA peso devaluation. But not this kind of devaluation. In his scenario, a secretly planned devaluation would be triumphantly unveiled -- a wily Latino ploy that by cheapening Mexican goods, would amplify the sucking sound. Reality proved less rife with intrigue than Perot's imagination. Mexico...
...much after the earliest stage of life. Government attempts to do so, like the Head Start education program, have been a failure. Until we know what, if anything, works at raising intellect, say Murray and Herrnstein, let's stop trying. The Bell Curve's explosive contentions detonate under a cushion of careful shadings and academic formulations. Even so, they explode with a bang. To give credence to such ideas -- even when doing so with loud sighs of alas! -- is to resume some of the most poisonous battles of the late 1960s and '70s, when the sometimes cranky outer limits...
...would definitely say that I expected it to be a geeky, stupid, whoopee cushion joke fest," said Szubin, who is a social studies concentrator. "But I thought it was well-planned and very funny...
...takes full credit for press bashing. She nearly lifts out of the down- filled cushion when she remembers how unfair it was when journalists made her husband out to be an elitist by erroneously reporting that he didn't recognize a supermarket scanner. But she remarks on the novelty of using a juicer and discovering that you can order carryout for dinner...