Word: aheader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friends--they met in the spring of their first year, working at the business school--decided to go ahead with their candidacy...
...even dumb, deadly mistakes. What's shocking is how often it happens. Depending on which statistics you believe, the number of Americans killed by medical screw-ups is somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 every year--the eighth leading cause of death even by the more conservative figure, ahead of car crashes, breast cancer and AIDS. More astonishing than the huge numbers themselves, though, is the fact that public health officials had known about the problem for years and hadn't made a concerted effort to do something about...
...pessimistic assessment, but it's not just bureaucrats' caterwauling. Rather, L.A. school superintendent Ruben Zacarias was an eager convert to the crusade against social promotion. In February he unveiled an ambitious plan to end unwarranted promotions in five grades during the 1999-2000 school year--a full year ahead of the timetable set by a state...
...Have to stay ahead of them," she says...
...Some would have you believe Bad Girrls Studios is down and out for the count. Not so, says ebullient director Jessica Brand. Despite a recent incident that found the studios lacking an entertainment license at an opening, Bad Girrls is pushing ahead, both with its exhibition schedule and its programmatic imperative of social change...