Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call ourselves the 'last chance funding,'" Sykes says. "As part of the process, we encourage our students to apply to all funding bodies and we meet what-ever aid they cannot receive elsewhere...
...Fighting in Kosovo intensified this week even as the U.S. envoy shuttled back and forth between the warring parties. Holbrooke left the region warning that NATO is stepping up preparations for those air strikes on the Serbs. For now, at least, Milosevic appears content to call his bluff...
Jiang and his colleagues dislike Taiwan's President Lee personally and believe he is bent on splitting the island from the mainland. Still, it could get even worse from their point of view. The platform of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party calls for "the establishment of a sovereign Taiwan Republic." But the straits crisis of 1996 sobered the party's leaders, and they are busy revising their approach, now saying they would hold off indefinitely on independence and use it as a defensive tool. If China became too threatening, the D.P.P. says, it would call a referendum on independence, then...
...Doctors call it the brown-bag test. The idea is to have you dump the contents of your home medicine cabinet plus your favorite vitamins and over-the-counter remedies into a bag and bring it to their office so they can see just exactly which pills you're popping. The findings can be horrifying. You may discover that those little white tablets and the big blue gel caps you're swallowing are actually dangerous when taken together. The more prescription medicines you take, the greater the risk...
...keeping office overhead down ("It's what killed the Egyptians!"), saw that Viagra could easily become one more way of separating the haves from the have-nots. His book Memos from the Chairman collects 17 years' worth of messages to his staff on ephemera such as returning every phone call, reusing envelopes and rationing cabs...