Word: abbott
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...architectural firm of Shepley, Bulfinch,Richardson and Abbott and the construction companyWilliam A. Berry & Son are working with Countwaystaff and Harvard Medical School's Engineering andConstruction Department on the project...
...share of credit for the show's success ("My real talent," he says, "is in picking people"), he is loath to ascribe any cultural significance to Seinfeld, even while in a somewhat valedictory mood. The show's aims, he insists, are entirely unpretentious: "I really aspire to The Abbott and Costello Show. That's my favorite sitcom. We walk down the street and bump into Bania, the bad comedian, the way Lou Costello would bump into Stinky, and then a scene comes out of it. That's classic. It's burlesque." One quickly learns that Seinfeld, like most comedians...
...class-conscious than they should have been. Jacey Holt (Billy Crudup) is unafflicted by the former condition, but the latter has him distinctly under the weather. He lives poor with his much nicer younger brother Doug (Joaquin Phoenix) and his widowed mother (Kathy Baker) and fixates on the wealthy Abbotts. He's convinced that Lloyd (Will Patton), the paterfamilias, got rich by stealing an invention from Jacey's late father and then had a ruinous affair with his mom. In repayment, Jacey will therefore seduce Eleanor (Jennifer Connelly), the least stable of the three Abbott daughters. And then her older...
They got some incentive two weeks ago, when the FDA approved for the first time the use of two protease inhibitors for children--Agouron's nelfinavir and Abbott's ritonavir. But parents and pediatricians complain that they still don't have enough information about how to use them. Nelfinavir, in particular, "went through the approval process very rapidly," says Dr. Mark Kline, associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "There are some basic pieces of information about nelfinavir that we don't have--like how often to give the drug or in what dose...
...Abbott Lawrence Lawell Professor of Sociology Stanley Lieberson examines current theories and evidence about the social factors that influence tastes in Sociology 150: "The Social Underpinnings of Taste...