Word: criticize
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...assumed that estrogen and estrogen-progestin were the same," says UCLA breast surgeon Dr. Susan Love, a prominent critic of hormone-replacement therapy. "Suddenly we are starting to get evidence that they're not." Like many others, Love is eagerly awaiting the findings of a large clinical trial launched by the Women's Health Initiative in 1993. That trial, which involves nearly 30,000 women between the ages of 50 and 79, is specifically designed to assess the pros and cons of estrogen-progestin therapy. The first results won't be ready for five more years...
...resist the determined-looking young woman with a huge yellow 'Choice' button pinned to her chest. He knows what's coming and he doesn't think twice. Ten minutes later, he chastises the moderator of the event, who is trying to steer the microphone away from another would-be critic, a University of Wisconsin student. "Let me direct the microphone, if you don't mind," shouts Keyes, his voice a mixture of fearsome preacher and irritated muppet...
...most prominent critic has left-wing credentials...
...Schauble at the moment is Christian Wulff, 40, an attorney who is the party's deputy chairman. Wulff is telegenic and one of the leaders of the "Jungen Wilden," the Young Wild Ones, a group of up-and-coming, fortysomething local politicians in the C.D.U. Wulff was an early critic of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, even trying to block Kohl from running for a fifth term in 1998. "The C.D.U. does not accept that anybody puts himself outside the legal system," Wulff said last week, referring to Kohl's refusal to name the source of illegal contributions...
...possible successor to Schauble is not young at all. Kurt Biedenkopf, prime minister of Saxony, is a white-haired 70-year-old. What Biedenkopf lacks in youth, however, he makes up with credentials: he was an early and outspoken critic of Kohl's autocratic domination of the party. While that was considered a liability with Kohl in power, Biedenkopf now stands out as the party's conscience, in much the same way Jimmy Carter appeared so attractive to an American electorate revolted by the Watergate affair...