Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just keep hitting [the sleep button] for hours," she says...
...often, you can only pick one you know nothing about from a list supplied by your employer's managed-care plan. But if you happen to work for one of 24 large corporations in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, you could visit a kiosk near your office, punch a button and see a computer screen light up with a sales pitch like this, from pediatrician Leonard Snellman...
...quite what you need? Punch the button again. Other physicians--about 7,000 in 23 practice groups--also want your business. Some groups offer 24-hour hot lines and evening clinics for two-worker families. Some also trumpet their expertise in treating particular illnesses. "No. 1 in cardiac care," brags HealthSystem Minnesota--plus "96% early detection of breast cancer...above-average five-year prostate cancer survival rates." Some groups ask for $10 a month, in addition to the $70 payment each patient gets from his or her employer; others demand $20, still others $40 (no deductibles though). You pays your...
...season, when the cast of I Love Lucy couldn't utter the word pregnant during Little Ricky's gestation period, or 1965 when, a year after network TV got its first double marital bed on Bewitched, Barbara Eden was forbidden by NBC to show her belly button on I Dream of Jeannie...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: An Air Force briefing provided few answers in the continuing search for Captain Craig Button and his A-10 attack jet. Deputy Air Force chief of staff Major General Donald Peterson would not comment on an emerging theory that a despondent Button committed suicide by crashing the jet into New York mountain, where some 20 reports of smoke and explosions have led would-be rescuers to concentrate their search. "I wouldn't speculate on family affairs here," Peterson said, adding that the Air Force was operating under the assumption that Button could still be alive. "I will only...