Word: bents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is compounded by the intolerant ideological bent of the race relations officers. But even if the current officers were competent, they would still be useless. Has it ever occurred to the University that this may be one of those situations in which doing nothing is better than doing something...
Upon his discharge in 1947, Murray joined an experimental transplant group at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, where he had served during his residency. In 1954, he performed the first human kidney transplant between a pair of identical twins...
...candidate, Clinton promised he would send a peace envoy to Northern Ireland; renew most-favored-nation trading status for China only if Beijing met tough conditions on human rights; and reverse the practice of sending back all Haitian boat people, including refugees entitled to asylum. He has bent or broken all three vows...
...Serbs must cease and desist, Clinton must act. But enthralled by multilateralism and fearful of a Vietnam-like quagmire (and against the private advice of senior military officers like Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell, who believes intervention should be massive or not at all), the President seems bent on adopting a feelgood strategy -- a limited action designed, above everything, to ensure a swift exit, a policy that defines success as merely having done something without regard to the ultimate result. By all accounts, Clinton aims to "level the killing fields," to borrow the words of British Foreign Secretary...
Hillary was at lunch in the White House mess in March when Carolyn Huber, the former administrator of the Governor's mansion, walked in. When Huber bent over and whispered in her ear, Hillary's face turned white. That afternoon she and Chelsea left for St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, and the President arrived two days later. Hillary made it to her father's bedside in time to say goodbye. "When we got there, for the first couple of days," she recalls, "he knew we were there, and it was wonderful." She returned to Washington after 16 days, just...