Word: chambers
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...facilities and would protect whistle-blowing health-care workers from being fired. Similar measures have been introduced throughout the country, from the U.S. Congress to the Cincinnati city council, but nowhere does the battle loom larger than in California. A coalition led by the health-care industry and the Chamber of Commerce has mounted a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to defeat the initiatives...
Levine, a colorless lawyer who has never ingratiated himself within the industry, could be facing the same fate himself. By now, Sony Pictures Entertainment has turned into an executive torture chamber, with an extraordinary string of firings in its recent past as the studio has struggled to extricate itself from a morass of big budgets, bad box office and fratricidal infighting...
...prompting physicians to explore a host of ways to keep hearts healthy. For patients whose only recourse is a heart transplant, one bold method, pioneered by a Brazilian surgeon, involves increasing the efficiency of the heart by cutting away a portion of the muscle of the left ventricle, the chamber from which blood is pumped to the rest of the body. Surgeons at several facilities in the U.S. have begun using the technique in trials and hope to improve on its current 40% death rate...
Dole insists he can balance the budget by 2002 through a combination of economic growth--to be spurred by the tax cuts--and sharp, though mostly unspecified, reductions in spending. Trust me, he is saying. He told the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, "I grew up a poor boy in Russell, Kansas. I know the importance of living within your means, and I know the consequences of not doing that. Deficit reduction is in my blood...
...good King--bad King labels, which date to an apocryphal--and now discounted--tale told by the Greek historian Herodotus about how Khufu prostituted his own daughter to pay for his pyramid. Good or bad, Snefru ended up in the Red Pyramid, entombed in a magnificent three-room burial chamber that is considered the finest of the Old Kingdom. The chamber, with its 45-ft. corbel ceiling, remains. Its royal occupant, however, is missing. A mummy discovered in the pyramid in 1948 and believed to contain Snefru's corpse disappeared shortly afterward and has never been found...