Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...application for a visa. Washington has declined to bring pressure on the Kuwaitis to reconsider. Evidently as part of an effort to push the Reagan Administration to force a swap, Islamic Jihad over the past 13 months has released two of its American prisoners, Father Jenco, and the Rev. Benjamin Weir, a Presbyterian missionary. Both had been held captive for more than a year. Waite had a hand in the two releases, though he has never spelled out his exact role...
...Long-term health insurance] is very badly needed as the population ages. We can't make Congress adopt a plan, so we will do it through institutions," said Ernst Benjamin, co-chairman of the pension issues committee of the umbrella organization for higher education in Washington. Benjamin, who also heads the American Association of University Professors, said such policies have not existed at universities until now, but "Harvard will provide academic leadership" in the area...
...general, when universities enter the health-care arena, they spend only as much as they take in from participating employees, Benjamin said. Under plans being investigated, Harvard and other universities would not be "writing a blank check" for runaway nursing home costs, he said...
...Benjamin Harrison's household was afraid of the new electric lights and would avoid the switches. Result: lights often burned through the night. When the William Howard Tafts celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on June 19, 1911, the house, the trees, the bushes were festooned with thousands of electric lights, and 8,000 guests came from all over the nation. The Tafts loved it so much they did it again for the public the next night...
...journey into the ridiculous has its humorous moments. As a result of the unsupervised infant's nasty habit, Papa Harry Goldstein (Billy Salloway) turns into a wino. Mama Nancy (Jennifer Harris) liberates herself from housewifehood by taking on a job as a pancake flipper at the neighborhood IHOP. Young Benjamin Goldstein (Alfred Naddaff) finds solace in the ways of the Hare Krishna, and his sister Melissa, played brilliantly by Lucy Soutter, pukes her way into heavy-duty bulimia. This is the disparate stuff workshop pieces are made...