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Word: sticked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
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...trials Norplant was remarkably effective. During the first two years the implant had one-tenth to one-twentieth the failure rate of oral contraceptives, which fail 3% of the time. Surveys of women who have used Norplant -- a total of 350,000 worldwide -- show that 80% are willing to stick with the contraceptive for at least one year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Pill That Gets Under the Skin | 12/24/1990 | See Source »

...stick failed to save him this time. Doctors, lawyers, civil servants and merchant seamen refused to work. Journalists and television actors walked off their jobs. Shops remained shuttered, and curfew-defying protesters took to the streets. Said opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia: "The autocratic Ershad had to surrender to the people's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bangladesh The Dictator Is Gone! | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

...showing the world that America is a hypocrite," added Zaheer R. Ali '94. "The moral reasons Bush is giving are not legitimate...Again, America is in other people's business. Wherever they can stick their hands in, they go there and claim it's for some fundamental moral reason...

Author: By Jennifer E. Fisher, | Title: Students Worried About a War | 12/15/1990 | See Source »

...idea is that you can't break in with these people," he says of the new Harvard party crowd. "Before you could go and talk to anyone. They stick to themselves and they're taking it over for themselves. They definitely snub the regulars and don't want to deal with them," says Stowers, a native of Las Vegas...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: From Bikers To Preppies, Bud Hats To Chinos | 12/14/1990 | See Source »

...Jewish, aren't you?" asked one of my student hosts as we sped along the highway. "Because we have a lot of Jews here. And they sure stick together, those Jews. They say we exclude them, but let me tell you something. They exclude...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: One Pre-Med's Journey Into the Twilight Zone | 12/12/1990 | See Source »

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