Word: flowing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick. In a simple 15-minute procedure, a doctor inserts the tubes just beneath the skin in a woman's upper arm. Once in place, the tiny cylinders start releasing progestin into the bloodstream. The flow continues until the hormone is depleted -- usually in about five years. If a woman wishes to become pregnant earlier, she can have the tubes removed, and fertility will be restored in less than 48 hours. In clinical trials Norplant was remarkably effective. During the first two years the implant...
...their music is snazzy and right up to the second. It has good melodic hooks (thanks to Farriss) and strong rhythmic underpinnings (courtesy of his brothers Tim, 31, on rhythm guitar, and Jon, 28, on drums, as well as bassist Garry Gary Beers, 28). It has a surprisingly soulful flow (from the sax of Kirk Pengilly, 29, who also plays lead guitar) and, in Hutchence's dramatic vocals, anthemic ambitions...
...Students Against War in the Middle East think that Texaco executives and American automobile owners are the only people who owe their livelhood to the flow of oil, they are tragically mistaken. Every dollar added to the price of oil means billions of dollars of foreign exchange lost by oil-importing Third World nations and the struggling democracies of Eastern Europe. Oil can only be purchased in hard currency, a frightfully scarce resource in all of these countries...
...everything to lose in facing an army of one million troops, brought up on desert warfare and undeterred by eight years of devastating stalemate with Iran. Is it really worth thousands of American lives to restore Kuwait's less than palatable Sabah monarchy? To guarantee the flow of cheap oil, when we have known for years that we must develop alternative energy sources? To put a stop to one dictator's agression and atrocities, when we turn our backs on countless similar violations of human rights and international law? To appease the president's "impatience...
From this change will flow other valuable improvements in living, learning and working environments for both men and women. The lessons we learn in setting aside old practices and beliefs based on subordination of individuals of a certain gender will help us in our larger efforts for social, racial, ethnic, intergenerational and international understanding...