Word: clinically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their lunches, a girl who wanted to read her Bible on the school bus and a Hindu who refused jury duty on religious grounds. The group also briefly considered defending Paul Hill, who was convicted of the 1994 murder of a doctor and another man at a Florida abortion clinic, but refused to argue, as Hill wanted, that the killing was justifiable homicide. "Violence never justifies violence...
...defense, holistic vets point to miraculous recoveries like Casey's that cannot, for once, be attributed to the placebo effect, in which the expectation that you will get better actually makes you better. The beasts of the field, it may be safely assumed, don't come to the animal clinic expecting anything; the results they get speak for themselves...
...launching pad, LL is attempting to become a crossover phenomenon. Right now all his stars are lining up auspiciously. In January he performed at the presidential Inaugural. He already has a TV sitcom, UPN's In the House, in which he stars as a father figure and sports-clinic owner, and this fall he debuts in a national ad campaign for Coca-Cola. In September he published his autobiography, I Make My Own Rules, in which he urges his fans to "get beyond materialism." Of his music, he writes, "I know I need to be careful when it comes...
...insistence, La-Kia was rushed to the more peaceable hallways of St. Thomas Aquinas, a parochial school costing $1,400 a year. Because La-Kia's mother Yolanda is unemployed, Lester paid the tuition himself. But he's a retired children's clinic administrator, so money is scarce. Help came at a community meeting a few months later. Lester heard Robert Sorrell, head of the local chapter of the Urban League, talk about the new school-voucher program that Sorrell had started with money from the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association. The businesses were providing up to $1,000 in private-school...
...teacher was saying I can't send her to that program." The tutoring ended, but Olivia's reading didn't improve, and in second grade she became scared and frustrated. "She was literally pulling her hair out," Muskie remembers, her voice cracking. A year later, Muskie found a reading clinic that used a phonics method. "It took them six days," Muskie says, "and Olivia could read...