Word: contracting
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...morning-after pill, which doctors believe prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall, mifepristone causes miscarriage by blocking the hormone progesterone, which is needed to maintain a pregnancy. Mifepristone is followed 48 hours later by a second drug, called misoprostol, which forces the uterus to contract; the fetus is expelled several hours later. When taken within 49 days of the last period, the two-drug combination is 95% effective...
...imperial systems. In addition both before and after Columbian contact, north-west Europe had much less exposure to, and intercourse with, non-European peoples than, say, had the Portuguese and the Spanish. The English and Dutch were more likely to view non-European peoples as lying outside the social contract and therefore beyond the protection of the web of individual rights they were weaving for themselves. As long as some group is regarded as outsiders then freedom for insiders is perfectly compatible with enslavement and exploitation ? as indeed happened in the Athenian city state. The greater the degree of freedom...
Shaer accused the school of unfairly disciplining him in 1996 after he was accused of date rape by a female undergraduate. Shaer, who claims the intercourse was consensual, asserted in court that Brandeis had breached its "contract" with him by disregarding the disciplinary procedures that it set forth in its own student handbook...
Talk of the aging and oft-injured Ewing demanding a massive contract extension at the end of this coming season surely forced the Knicks' hand. New York nearly traded him to Seattle in a different deal earlier in the summer, one that would have brought Olympian Vin Baker to the Garden along with Rice...
...fellow swimmer Paula Barila Bolopa, who swam the 50-m in 1:03.97, doubling the second worst time, had received money to be interviewed by Australian papers. And Moussambani had already turned down an ad campaign. "Speedo offered to sponsor me, but I didn't like the contract," he said, eating baked Alaska as the waitress came over with a stack of menus to be signed. "Michael Johnson was here two days ago, and we didn't ask for his autograph," she said. After signing, the team stopped for some photo ops with diners, then headed back to the Olympic...