Word: casing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he's ready to hit the word processor, McGuane heads out to his office, a freestanding shed with a porch overlooking the banks of the Boulder River. By the door is a fishing rod he keeps just in case the trout start to jump. Fishing, McGuane explains, is just another way for him to stay in touch with the "spirit and poetry of the natural world." Maintaining a primal connection to the environment is essential to McGuane, for both his peace of mind and his work. "I feel strongly that writers need to be some place," he says...
...brought out a cardboard sign with an arrow showing Okoye which way to run. During his three years on the Azusa team, the Nigerian scored 33 touchdowns and won a berth in the 1987 Senior Bowl, where he scored four times. N.F.L. scouts were soon on to Okoye's case. "He's big, strong and fast," says Mihon, "but there's more to it than that. There's the quickness, the agility and the young body...
...appears in the book as a brilliant though ineffectual figure out of a Chekhov play, was a revolutionary but not a Bolshevik. He was individualistic and something of an eccentric pragmatist. While waiting to be drafted during World War I, he practiced writing with his left hand in case he lost his right...
...result, the agency has a bad case of bureaucratic burnout. Approval of new drugs requires mountains of corporate filings, and delays in processing applications now run well over two years. That has led to more scandal: this summer investigators discovered that a few generic-drug developers had bribed underpaid FDA employees to speed up the agency's responses to the paperwork for their products. Three FDA reviewers have already pleaded guilty, and more prosecutions are expected. "This past year has been one of the most difficult in FDA's history," said Commissioner Frank Young last week...
...provided to seek a cure for the disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When an emergency comes along," says one FDA official, "we stop doing things we were scheduled...