Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...answer to all three terms," he said. "Butthere is a name I prefer above all of these:Christian. If they ask you who you are, say, `I ama Christian, I am a child...
...public support for his more controversial proposals, including raising taxes on the wealthy, providing college loans to all qualified students, starting a national health-insurance scheme and making support of abortion rights a test for the appointment of Supreme Court Justices. By large majorities, even voters who now prefer the other candidates said Clinton's election would constitute popular support for those ideas. After one of the toughest and most serpentine campaigns in memory, Clinton would have a running start in setting the country on a new course after 12 years of Republican rule...
...noted the sickness was as bad as what she experienced while undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. Caffeine withdrawal may explain the puzzling distress some people suffer following surgery (pre-op procedure often prohibits food or liquids), or on weekends (no office coffeepot), or during visits with people who prefer decaffeinated beverages. The findings, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Johns Hopkins University team, may apply equally to moderate drinkers of tea or caffeinated sodas. Those wanting to give up caffeine are advised to reduce their consumption gradually over a few days...
...Tower. He lives behind high walls in a Spanish-style mansion in south Miami and drives a bulletproof blue Mercedes. He is sentimental enough to have planted six royal palms in his backyard, one for each of Cuba's provinces. "I am more Cuban than American," he says. "I prefer eating plantains to American food...
Schmidt, who left Yale to direct the Edison Project, an experimental, for-profit education system, said that university fiduciaries must guard against the "tendency to prefer the present to consume our future...