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A NYT piece reports that a 5 feet, 5 inches, 125-pound woman hopes to strike a blow for feminism by fighting a male lightweight in boxing's officially sanctioned first intergender bout.
But a working person who is the sole or main support of a same-sex partner could realize a large tax saving if the union were legally sanctioned.
Telethon seems here to stay, sanctioned by dictionaries, but no dictionary records the next innovation with -athon , and I can only guess that the new suffix began attaching to other base elements in the 1950s and '60s.
Editorial approval was granted for these changes, which were sanctioned by Alan Lambowitz, in whose laboratory the work was carried out.
This is not an officially sanctioned figure, but Chatterbox trusts the U.S. Army to handle a thermometer.