Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe not. This was, of course, in the days before I took Foods and Nutrition I (the best class I took in high school), so I cut a few corners. Yeast, for example. How important could that be in the grand scheme of bread? So I forgot to take the plastic covering off of the ham and didn't preheat the oven, but what are details when it comes to love...
Still holding a modicum of hope, I handed her the sonnet. She said, "Oh. The rhyme scheme is right and everything...
...physician to treat each illness. This profile would be quite important in my individual "credentialing," in determining whether I could participate in an insurance plan or be on a certain hospital staff. Quite a change from when credentials were determined by training and ability. The winners in this scheme: big business, the insurance companies, the hospitals and the lawyers. The losers: doctors and their patients. PAUL M. PAVLOV, M.D. Ocean Springs, Mississippi...
Coming out of the locker room, the Tigers made some definite defensive adjustments. Princeton began really mixing up their interior defensive scheme and, as a result, Snowden was effectively eliminated as an offensive factor. He scored just one point on only two second half shots...
Speculation titillates the mind but usually ends by subtly demeaning the human place in the cosmic scheme. The Earth that the ancients took to be the center of the drama becomes ever more marginal, a receding speck. Astronomers' searches tend to assume that the aliens would be superior to earthlings, perhaps evolved beyond Earth's ability to comprehend them...