Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...talk about children, sales at the local stores and picking out floor tiles," says Ginger Quinn, a younger sister who is a captain with -- yes -- the Harris County sheriff's department. The entire family moved to Houston from Philadelphia in 1963 when Betsy's father John Herrmann became a project manager for NASA, working on the lunar module. He died in 1976, but his influence lives on in his second-oldest child. "Growing up, Karen and Ginger were very outgoing, but I was shy," Watson says. "Our father kept reassuring all of us that we could do anything we wanted...
...enable them to keep track of their blood sugar. Often they are so badly informed about their disease that they skrimp on the oral medication or insulin shots they need to keep blood glucose in the normal range. In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, a large health-promotion project, A Su Salud, has begun to spread the word about diabetes on Spanish-language radio and television...
...York. A barrage of bad news about the state budget gaps delivered the final blow to an environmental bond issue of nearly $2 billion. That was an embarrassment for Governor Mario Cuomo, who made support of the project a centerpiece of his own successful re-election campaign. Now money for recycling, land preservation and other programs the bond would have financed will have to come from a reluctant state legislature or higher local taxes...
...Barrymore gift was an animal magnetism that could project to the second balcony; the Barrymore curse was a belief that nothing in life could approach the grand scale of the theater. In her youth, Ethel was so radiant that Winston Churchill begged her to marry him. "I was so in love with her!" he later confessed. "And she wouldn't pay any attention...
These drawings show the Iraqi leader's new -- and blisteringly opulent -- Al- Sijoud Palace, a moat-surrounded monument that was under construction (estimated cost: $1 billion) in Baghdad when Saddam invaded Kuwait. Some of the foreign workers employed on the project have since been allowed to leave Iraq...