Word: chambers
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Their departure, local political observers say, means more than just a loss of experience in the council chamber in City Hall. Rather, it could mean a change in the overall tenor of city government, as Cambridge loses two great political brokers who have worked hard to ensure stability reigns in the "People's Republic...
...lobbyists admit that the cost increases for mental-health insurance will be small (maybe 1%). But they fear it will open the door to other mandates as well. "You have to remember that the Patient's Bill of Rights is being considered too," says Kate Sullivan of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, referring to the proposal in Congress to make it easier for people to get around the cost restrictions of managed care. "So you're talking about 1% here and 1.5% there, but in the aggregate, you're looking at a 6% increase, which is huge...
DIED. PAUL SACHER, 93, Swiss pharmaceutical tycoon and conductor; in Basel, Switzerland. By the time Sacher married Maja Stehlin--the heir to the Hoffmann-La Roche drug empire--in 1934, he had already founded a musical institute and a chamber orchestra. Even as he commissioned many new works, Sacher oversaw the growth of Hoffmann-La Roche, manufacturer of Valium, for nearly 60 years...
...Kosovo crisis were a Hollywood film, Slobodan Milosevic would be on the run now, in a vain attempt to save his skin as his evil army disintegrated. Later in the movie he would be dragged before a chamber of bewigged jurists and, as the credits rolled, sentenced to his just deserts. But the real world is unlikely to offer up the denouement of a handcuffed Milosevic unraveling in a war-crimes courtroom ?- at least not any time soon. Even if Milosevic has been given no secret guarantees regarding his status as an indicted war criminal, the odds are slim that...
...hold her in that soundless room, far from daylight and the traffic of Bayswater and all the webs of the world. She holds me as if she could never bear to let me desert her again." Excuse me? In addition to doing fastidious research among violin makers and chamber players, has Seth also undergone immersion therapy in the complete works of Judith Krantz...