Word: subjection
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...railroad employees in the U.S., a day at work may now include a surprise: being selected for a random drug test. Last week the workers joined more than 650,000 other private-sector employees who during the past month have become subject to new Department of Transportation rules requiring random tests. While many transport workers are already screened before hiring and after accidents, the department hopes its expanded rules will provide an even higher level of deterrence...
This embarrassing record comes as the faculty's subcommittee on the QRR considers including the requirement in the Core Program as an 11th subject area...
Once the season began, I began to learn that, yes, football and philosophy do mix. And Gicewicz had mastered the subject...
...academic forces lost a few yards on another rule entangled in racial tensions. Last year the NCAA passed Proposition 42, which would have denied any scholarships to athletes who fail to meet basic requirements, essentially: 1) a C average in eleven high school core subjects and 2) a score of 700 (on a scale of 400 to 1,600) on the SAT or 15 (on a scale of 1 to 36) on the ACT. Since disproportionate numbers of blacks fall short on these tests, Proposition 42 was widely denounced as racist. Yet instead of repealing it, as many blacks demanded...
...heavily from liver damage than do alcoholic men. Women may be more vulnerable to cirrhosis for another reason, says Dr. Jack Mendelson of Harvard Medical School. Studies by a team at Johns Hopkins indicate that women's livers metabolize alcohol faster than men's and thus may be more subject to wear and tear. Mendelson speculates that in female alcoholics a lack of gastric enzyme means that "their livers have to work even harder," accelerating the destruction...