Word: albeit
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Only a bunch of pediatricians and health officials could celebrate, albeit in a muted kind of way, that toddlers across the nation are shrieking their lungs out. On the one hand, they?re chalking up the highest-ever rates of childhood immunizations, and on the other they?re bemoaning the fact that so many kids still remain out of reach. According to numbers released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control, in 1998, 80.6 percent of children 19 to 35 months had the complete series of recommended shots for the big three of childhood disease: measles, polio and tetanus/diphtheria. That...
Katie Buffett has joined a growing, albeit still elite, list of Americans who have opted out of the joys of flying with commercial airlines. She recently bought a share in a private plane because her favorite nephew told her it would be a good idea. The nephew, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, thinks many more people will pay to avoid cooling their heels at gates and cramping their backsides into uncomfortable seats in the air. Buffett spent $725 million last year to acquire Executive Jet Aviation, operator of NetJets, which created a business in fractional ownership of aircraft. With revenues projected...
...album Harlem World and was one of the biggest stars in rap before retiring from the business. Now he's just an oddly named coed. A spokesperson for the university said Ma$e, born Mason Betha, "fits right in and acts just like any other student," albeit one who has been granted special parking privileges. And while he no longer writes paeans to the high life, his academic interests suggest he has not given up on the material world altogether: he has reportedly decided to major in business...
...riding the buzz. It is a buzz I built, albeit by accident. The buzz started last month, when I got a random call from Jed Weitzman, an ambitious 28-year-old manager at Brillstein-Grey. He told me that he really related to the pop references in my column and wanted to manage my Hollywood career, even though I didn't have one. Seeing as I am not the first to allude to The Brady Bunch in a story that was not about TV, I sensed this was just another lame cover for the attraction people feel for me after...
...themselves in the turbulent life and times of Diana, Princess of Wales, knew about her struggles with bulimia, her tendency to throw herself down stairs, her unwise love affairs, her basic inability to stick with any notion for much longer than it took her to tire of her latest--albeit fabulous--hairstyle...