Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...websites were restored. The leper was promoted to general manager and put in charge of the crazed swine, who, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, had to be kept in their current positions. Most of them were vice presidents, though, so it didn't affect the value of Microsoft stock...
...tear them down. That's a bit of a misunderstanding. What journalists appreciate about heroes is the kind of journey they're on. It makes a great story, not least because the hero is taking a dangerous new path, fraught with setbacks and surprises. But it's the third act that really makes the story newsworthy, when "the hero comes back from his mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man," as Joseph Campbell wrote in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In this magazine we bring you 20 such stories of heroes and icons...
...included in our survey another kind of exemplar: the icon, the embodiment of an ideal that affects the way we live or act, for better or worse. Marilyn Monroe, the paramount platinum goddess, became an indelible work of Pop art. The Kennedys gave off an aura in which Americans basked, happy to think that the U.S. had become a place where you could grow up to be royalty. Princess Diana, conversely, became a symbol of Everywoman's search for happiness...
...Balanced Budget Act of 1997 placed caps on Medicare spending--federal aid to hospitals--that had helped to pay for the expensive teaching mission of academic medical centers. The cutbacks in Medicare spending came at a particularly difficult time for American hospitals, as private insurers have moved to pay less and less of the per-patient cost of treatment over the last five years, instead ceding this job to less generous managed care programs...
...course, someone still has to pay the premium for the carriers? investment in wireless technology (and for allowing you to act like a movie mogul). So part of the FCC?s plan is to provide an automated message telling the caller that he/she is calling a cell phone, and that the carrier is about to take the extra money -- besides the dime or so it costs to use a land line -- out of his/her hide. The FCC?s changes, due early in 2000, won?t be irrevocable; the option of caller-only billing would be up to carriers, and therefore...