Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once, it was actually as bad as they promised. What began Sunday amid forecasters' dire warnings quickly overwhelmed the country from the Atlantic coast to western Kentucky, killing 86 people, piling drifts as high as 20 feet at New York airports and icing highways in an ill-prepared Atlanta. The ride is not quite over. An aftershock of sorts dusted Washington with more snow Tuesday as a weaker storm headed for New England. And by Friday, another large storm will form along the southern coast that is expected to provide a memorable echo of Sunday's deluge. "One computer model...
...HMOs. David Himmelstein, 45, an associate professor at the Harvard Medical School and a persistent critic of for-profit HMOs, signed on a year ago with U.S. Healthcare, a $2.9 billion behemoth whose 65,000 doctors and 2.3 million members make it the largest HMO on the East Coast...
...virus in Zaire. Dormant for 16 years, the disease swept through the Central African country, causing gruesome hemorrhagic fevers and killing at least 244 people (many of them health-care workers) before going underground again. At year's end, Ebola resurfaced in western Africa, this time in the Ivory Coast and possibly Liberia...
Good thing winter doesn't start until Friday. Schools were closed from Missouri to Connecticut, power was knocked out for thousands of homes in the midwest and flights were delayed coast to coast as a severe winter storm covered much of the country on Tuesday. The heaviest snow is predicted to hit parts of the East Coast and the Northeast tonight, with as much as 18 inches predicted...
Some people say they wouldn't be happy without real seasons. I felt that way too when I came to the East Coast as a first-year. Fall! I thought, imagining crunching through the autumn leaves. Snow! I thought, recalling the coziness of "It's a Wonderful Life." Winter! I thought, envisioning a chestnut-roasting afternoon tea in the middle of Harvard Yard...