Word: ashtrays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mildly--with students who consider the Yard no more than a giant and exceedingly well-decorated ashtray. I have lost all sympathy with those who insist, between smoke rings, that denying them their prerogative to drag constitutes an infringement on their fundamental rights. I will hear no more talmudic debates on whether the founders of this nation meant to ensure the ability of each and every last citizen to poison themselves as they...
...Food and Drug Administration has approved the first commercial implantable blood pump to keep patients alive while they await heart transplants. Called the HeartMate implantable pneumatic left-ventricular assist system, the ashtray-sized device boosts the heart's main pumping chamber while the natural heart continues to perform other functions. Only 2,000 donor hearts become available each year, while more than 15,000 people may need transplants...
This dish, much of it spilled long ago in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon (where Dean is dubbed "the human ashtray"), should not stop the presses of any tabloid. For that matter, they should not have started any presses at Viking. Stuffed with exotic by-products and lots of filler, the book could be sold in supermarkets as Jimmy Dean pork sausage...
...much as you can with that job, he seems to be making a good reputation for himself. If he can straighten out the glass ashtray procurement problem, we'll probably declare him a national hero. But I must say in terms of fun, he's no Dan Quayle...
...than 800 recommendations on how to restructure it -- and theoretically save $108 billion over the next five years. Gore appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to soft-sell the scheme, at one point ridiculing the arthritic federal bureaucracy by strapping on safety goggles to smash a government-approved ashtray in the officially sanctioned...