Word: although
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...Although Botterill will start skating Monday with the team during practice, Stone does not anticipate her return for the first round of the Beanpot against Boston University on Tuesday...
...pounds weight class pitted Matt Picarsic against Jason Nagle, the top two wrestlers in the EIWA for their class. Although Picarsic's strong return to the mats has been marked with a win last weekend over his Lehigh competitor and on Friday night over Princeton's Knorring, he was unable to overtake Nagle, falling 7-2 to the Quaker...
Campaign-finance reform has emerged as an issue during the budding presidential race. Three of the four leading candidates are for it; one is against. McCain has made limiting campaign contributions his defining issue, although the Arizona Republican has accepted contributions from corporations seeking favors from his Commerce committee. Bill Bradley has also spoken out for reform, calling for public financing of elections. Vice President Gore, although involved in the Clinton Administration's 1996 fund-raising scandals, also advocates publicly funded campaigns. Only Texas Governor George W. Bush favors the status...
Even Chiquita knew at the time what it faced. In its 1992 annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company acknowledged that "although we will oppose these restrictive policies in the proper legal forums, we are prepared to adapt to this new regulated environment." By this time, Dole, the world's second largest banana producer and Chiquita's only real rival, had hedged its bets and arranged to acquire bananas from those countries with no tariffs and generous import quotas...
...picture may not be quite so grim as it seems, however. For one thing, although the study was large--drawing from a pool of 46,355 postmenopausal women--the number of women on combined estrogen and progestin therapy was comparatively modest. For another, the rise in risk only became striking after four or more years of continuous hormone use, which further reduced the pool of subjects. In the end, out of a total of 2,082 cases of breast cancer, 101 occurred among women who were currently taking estrogen-progestin--and of these, a striking 39 occurred among the roughly...