Word: accession
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...ordinance, passed unanimously in 1992, let unmarried couples of any sexual orientation register with the city to gain hospital visitation rights, access to their partner's children's school records, as well as municipal health insurance benefits for partners of city workers or teachers...
Because only the insurance benefits provision of the ordinance conflict with the 1955 law, Cambridge domestic partners will retain hospital visitation rights and access to the school records of each other's dependents under the terms of the ruling...
...real problem with today's negative TV ads is not that they're so negative. It's that they're such lousy TV. From D.C. to Dixie, it's the same vocabulary of ominous synthesizer music, phony-sounding testimonials, graphics worthy of public-access cable and canned punch lines ("Wrong for the court. Wrong for our kids"). It wasn't always so. The 1964 "Daisy" ad was practically avant-garde. Today, while Madison Avenue produces some of the most sophisticated programming on the air, most political ads remain stuck in the Stone Age. Nader looked like a philosopher king simply...
...University's decision last year to put termbills on-line is thus a welcome change. Now that it has been put into effect, students can go to www.termbill.harvard.edu, enter their Harvard ID number and PIN, and voila! end their ignorance of their fiscal plights. In fact, such easy access to termbill information may well encourage us to be more responsible about those accumulating costs. We might even remember those Widener books hiding under our beds before three months have gone...
Last spring, King added five schools that allowed students to access Napster to a lawsuit against the service...