Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need of being preserved? Repositories such as the Houghton and Boston Public libraries preserve the integrity of Dickinson manuscripts, but are they responsible as well for "protectively" limiting the (physically non-invasive) interpretation of that material? As for "presenting" Dickinson's work, any presentational rendering beyond the actual physical display of the manuscripts and their facsimiles is, in the nature of the case, an interpretation, and as such open (like my printed rendering. Todd and Higginson's Johnson's, and Franklin's) to critique and even to being discredited...
...caught up in the excitement of a particular argument that I take it too far out of sheer intellectual zeal, without realizing what I have done. But there are other times, I must also confess, when I deliberately state an argument in more extreme terms than my actual beliefs may warrant...
...When they awarded the actual book, they read off the title. It was fascinating to see what books everyone chose," Jackson said...
Health Net is typical of "network-model" HMOs that contract with large medical groups and networks of physicians--called Independent Practice Associations--to provide the actual medical care. New subscribers choose or are assigned to a particular medical group, and in turn choose a "primary care provider" or "gatekeeper" who controls access to other services and outside specialists. Even his or her recommendations often must be approved by the group's own utilization-review managers or by Health...
That's because speculating about political fallout is an endeavor in which reporters can feign expertise, and they can do it with a veneer of impartiality that is harder to maintain when assessing the actual merits of a proposal. "The effect is as flattening and mind-shrinking as if the discussion of every new advance in medicine boiled down to speculation about whether its creator would win the Nobel Prize that year...