Word: particularity
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What's true is that some lawyers are, for lack of a more sophisticated word, jerks. I've definitely encountered opposition teams who employ every dirty trick in the book in order to gain the upper hand, and I've seen the way a particular law firm will target only the types of clients which promise the greatest return. More disheartening is the way certain attorneys will drop a petitioner at the first sign of serious trouble, leaving their client with large bills and without representation...
...turns out, we may not have to wait until fall; as the Justices passed down their end-of-session decisions Wednesday, questions swirled around one Court member in particular. Catching many legal analysts off guard, Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the minority dissent as the Court stuck down a Nebraska law banning late-term abortions, declaring it unconstitutional...
According to a CNN/TIME poll taken a week before Venter and Collins made their historic announcement, nearly two thirds of Americans wanted to dive into their own genetic material headfirst; 61 percent reported they would want to know if they were predisposed to contracting any particular diseases. But only 22 percent wanted their health insurers to get a peek, and a mere 14 percent were interested in letting Uncle Sam in on the data...
...away. When the 5BBC announced a century ride to Montauk at the easternmost tip of Long Island in May, my biking buddy Jane and I, with a sense of adventure--and trepidation--mailed in our $52 registration fees for the metric. For beginners like us, the draw of this particular ride is that the route along the southern shore of Long Island, a glacial outwash plain, is not only scenic but also mostly flat...
...signs of abnormal growth? (That's basically the strategy doctors and other health-care providers use during a Pap smear to check the cervix for signs of abnormal growth before the cells become dangerous.) If there is a problem, so the theory goes, it could be traced to a particular duct, which would then be carefully monitored for signs of malignancy. One major drawback: seemingly abnormal results can be triggered by changes in the breast during pregnancy, breast feeding, certain stages of the menstrual cycle, and menopause...