Word: technician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...treatment, the administrators said, wasn't a "medical necessity," nor was it on their list of covered therapies. Despite a letter from an expert at the National Institutes of Health testifying that this was Matthew's best chance at life, the HMO would not budge. Today Cerniglia, a computer technician in McLean, Va., is trying to scrape together enough money to pay for the procedure himself. His son's bills already total...
...instruction manuals. An example is his recipe for the International Style: raise the building on stilts, mix in a free-flowing floor plan, make the walls independent of the structure, add horizontal strip windows and top it off with a roof garden. But this makes him sound like a technician, and he was anything but. Although he dressed like a bureaucrat, in dark suits, bow ties and round horn-rimmed glasses, he was really an artist (he was an accomplished painter and sculptor). What is most memorable about the austere, white-walled villas that he built after World...
Even as early as 1879, Heinz touted the benefits of its ready-made catsup with this ad: "For the blessed relief of mother and other women of the household." In 1953, a year before Ray Kroc raised McDonald's now ubiquitous Golden Arches, a Swanson food technician named Betty Cronin created the "TV dinner." Back then, when meal preparation took an average two hours, the frozen meal on a three-section aluminum tray was lauded for helping mothers "burdened with baby-boom offspring." Today the once labor-intensive process of preparing a meal has been shrink-wrapped to a tidy...
Enter May the Manager. May and I agreed that I had better come in personally to demonstrate the problem. She would help me set up an appointment with the technician. But where was the technician...
...sincerely hope that the technician's "absence" was only an unwillingness to meet with me. If I waited until Friday, though, UIS would have had my computer a full month. I was tired of arguing, so I trekked across the river to get my computer. It had been in Allston for 22 days...