Word: actualizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...actual "Hasty Pudding," which insidesources describe as a "weird, sort of cinnamony,puddingy" dish served at the club since 1791, isthe featured dessert at the honorary dinners forthe Man and Woman of the Year...
...skirmishers in our health-insurance wars like to boast, has the best medical care in the world, what is the actual state of our health...
...whether somebody in a lab coat squints at a test tube and sees microbes turning up their toes. ``We need to realize,'' says Dr. Alfred Sommer, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, ``that `medical care' by itself still accounts for only a small proportion of actual lives saved...
...inside-the-Beltway power, no less. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who last week spoke at a Washington conference called Democracy in Virtual America, is trying to move Congress toward a "virtual Congress." He envisions a House committee holding "a hearing in five cities by television while the actual committee is sitting here." He's also letting C-SPAN's cameras, the electorate's virtual eyeballs, peer into more congressional hearings. And under a new program called "Thomas," after Thomas Jefferson, all House documents are being put on the Internet for mass perusal by modem. Thomas, says Gingrich, will...
...limit supporters favor a six-year cap. What's possible, then, is numerous House votes on varying schemes, with none garnering the 290 yeas needed. "That's the idea," concedes a G.O.P. Congressman. "You fulfill the contract's promise to vote on the issue -- there's no pledge of actual passage -- while minimizing the chances of its becoming law. As Newt says, if you're artful, 'you can favor public policy without having to be a martyr...