Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into perspective: 20 months ago, doctors told him that a brain tumor would probably kill him in three to six weeks. "You want to do a little more," he says of his outlook after the operation, in which the tumor was removed and found to be benign. "Taking on a presidential run is a very big step ... But I really want to use these days in as meaningful...
John is the sum of what he has learned and, of course, borrowed. On the new album you'll hear echoes of A Whiter Shade of Pale in the powerful ballad Man; a hint of mid-period Beatles in the benign Latitude and the jaunty Please; a great big blast of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil in the infectious, wondrously bleak Pain ("My name is pain/ You belong to me/ You're all I ever wanted/ I'm all you'll ever be"). But hey, 90% of everything is theft. John built these songs on solid, familiar...
...these seemingly benign cutbacks could change air travel for everyone. The American Society of Travel Agents said in a preliminary estimate that as many as 10,000 of its 25,000 members could be put out of business. For consumers, the choice is paying for services they have long taken for granted or buying their tickets directly from airlines or through computerized reservation systems. But dealing with the airlines could leave passengers at their mercy, with a narrow range of information. "Agents give fares and schedules for all the carriers," says Michelle Melroy Rafati of Melroy Travel in Salt Lake...
...Murray is not so benign; he is a crafty, venal man. He has been able to cling to some scientific legitimacy by downplaying many of the false assumptions in his work, emphasizing its factual elements, and ignoring substantive scientific rebuke. For example, in his Institute of Politics speech, Murray largely avoided the subject of race, and did not answer the stinging criticism of Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen J. Gould. He has claimed that The Bell Curve is not about race, but Adolf Hitler could have made that argument about Mein Kampf. Major portions of the book deal with race...
...year, after suffering shortness of breath, he spent eight days in the hospital where he was treated with blood thinners for a blood clot, which had developed in his right leg and traveled to his lungs. In January doctors removed his appendix after a CAT scan revealed a rare benign tumor...