Word: ruth
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...NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH ACTING DIRECTOR: Dr. Ruth Kirschstein FOUNDED: 1887 EMPLOYEES: 16,000 WHAT IT DOES: Conducts and funds medical research for the U.S. government
...Babe Ruth was asked to justify his new annual salary, $80,000, which he was paid to hit baseballs a long way, in light of the fact that the President of the United States was making a mere 75 grand. "I had a better year than he did," Ruth replied. He wasn't wrong, certainly, but the carping continued...
...February Eleventh is the birthday of its proprietress Ruth Dorsla, a Liberian-born designer whose dreamy specialties include silk embroidery, crochet and hand-dyes in items such as wraps, ponchos, dresses, blouses, dusters and scarves. It's a shop that satisfies the appetites of rock-star aggressives and ethereal earth goddesses equally. Her hand-dyes are known for their exceptional and sometimes startling color combinations, a talent she attributes to "having no color sense." Dorsla explains that unlike in New York, where black is a fashion staple (a code she encountered upon arriving at the Fashion Institute of Technology...
...latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue the stay. The four liberals--Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter--voted to let the counts...
...vote, with justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissenting, the court held per curiam that "there are constitutional problems" with the Florida Supreme Court's decision. By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that, in effect, there was nothing more the Florida court could do to fairly recount the state's ballots without disrupting the electoral process...