Word: spitefully
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Floyd Nichols was indomitable. He was only 19 when he was found to have a rare, lethal form of cancer that required the removal of his colon. But the young Chicagoan finished college, in spite of the additional burden of dyslexia, and became a successful computer salesman before starting his own mainframe business. By his mid-30s, he sold it off to begin what his family and friends thought would be a leisurely early retirement. When he told them he would cure cancer instead, they just laughed. How could a layman--even a wealthy one--do what had stumped even...
...Harvard didn't have as many graduate schools, didn't need hundreds of employees to manage its information technology, and had half as many museums as it does today. Add new dorms and the corresponding support staff, and it's easy to see how Harvard has grown in spite of itself...
...honeymoon--between the viewers and the characters. thirtysomething's strength lay in its shifting sympathies for the self-absorbed Steadmans, whom we stuck with through sheer exasperation. You have to love Once and Again; it will be a great show only if it gets us to do so in spite of ourselves...
...spite of, or maybe because of the multiple rationales that students at Harvard might have for getting dressed up, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being kind of a priss for getting all dolled up on Tuesday...
...although they certainly used to be," says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith. "Today, there are so many free clinics available, virtually every person has access to basic care." The major reasons that some children are not getting the inoculations they need are twofold, says Dr. Smith: "First, in spite of all the public programs available today, some parents still lack basic awareness about the importance of immunization, and may not understand the scheduling that each shot requires." The second reason, says Dr. Smith, is more worrisome. "There are people out there who harbor serious misconceptions about the effects...