Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...think we'll get elected," he says."We're serious about running, and we're seriousabout campaigning. We're not just in this as apurely propaganda thing. We know though,realistically, that we don't have a chance...
...barriers to pregnancy, menopause, which shuts down the release of eggs from the ovaries, was long considered the most insurmountable. But though the ovaries may shrivel like raisins, the other reproductive organs of postmenopausal women are still viable. These women can now become pregnant using someone else's eggs, according to a remarkable report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. A team led by Dr. Mark Sauer of the University of Southern California impregnated six of seven postmenopausal women, ages 40 to 44, using eggs that were taken from younger women and fertilized with sperm from...
With that decided, Gephardt placed a phone call to Budget Director Richard Darman, who was still the White House point man in the negotiations, though he and chief of staff John Sununu had both been cast in messenger roles because their aggressive arm bending in support of the budget summit's package had alienated many Republicans and most of the Democrats. Gephardt told Darman that the Democrats would give up the surtax in exchange for a tax-rate increase for the rich and a phaseout of their personal exemptions, along with a 5 cents gas tax hike...
...costs of $25 billion a year or more may be hard to swallow at a time when politicians are proposing higher taxes and cutbacks in social services. Environmentalists point out that the cost of doing nothing could have been higher, perhaps $50 billion a year. It is not clear, though, exactly how one calculates the price of forests ruined by acid rain or the suffering caused by pollution-related lung diseases and birth defects...
Associate art director Irene Ramp gave the issue its own special look. Though it contains the customary World and Nation sections, the rest is organized around five chapters with descriptive headings such as Public Images, the Changing Family, and Self and Society. Perhaps the most striking design choice is the cover image, a painting of a woman by Philadelphia artist Susan Moore. Editor Wallis thinks the portrait suggests that the woman is peering at the reader from behind a door that is partly open. "What does she see as she surveys the vistas ahead of her?" asks Wallis. "That...