Word: bled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even as his proposals were being raked over in Washington, Clinton could take some comfort from the reviews in the bars and coffee shops around the country. "I feel better about being bled," said Anne Bellamy, 40, as she sat at the bar of the Rusty Pelican in suburban Los Angeles. "I'm one of those girls who make $50,000 a year. I voted for the man fully understanding that my taxes would go up. It's a trade-off. The quality of life in America, not for myself but for everybody, is a real concern...
...Harvard police veteran said the department had experienced recent troubles with the radio system because employees had overused the system and because other localpolice stations channels had "bled over" andinterfered with Harvard's system
...back down -- through earlier and better detection and treatment. The effort begins this week and next, as the Schering-Plough pharmaceutical company, based in New Jersey, sponsors free prostate screenings all over the U.S. An estimated half a million American men will allow themselves to be poked, prodded and bled in hopes of being reassured of their good health or of spotting trouble before it gets serious. In addition to the rectal exam, men can undergo a new blood test that measures levels of a protein called prostate-specific antigen. If present in large quantities, PSA may signal malignancy...
...rain began as a light drizzle. By the time we had visited the final stop on our ice cream odyssey through Harvard Square, the open skies bled a full-fledged downpour...
...welfare. She also couldn't afford the reduced $425 price of a second-trimester abortion at the clinic near her home in East St. Louis. During her last pregnancy Paine tried to induce miscarriage by taking quinine pills. She ruled out a cheap illegal abortion because a girlfriend bled to death after getting one. "I know other girls who've done different things," she says. "Jumped off the top of dressers or provoked their boyfriends to jump on them." But the prospect of trying to support yet another child made her sick with worry. "My hair started coming...