Word: cold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outlook for private welfare is so bullish that Maximus has to compete with corporate giants like the $14.5 billion EDS and the $27 billion Lockheed Martin of the defense-and-aerospace industry. Lockheed Martin moved into the welfare field about 10 years ago, and with the cold war's end, its government-services division has become the fastest-growing part of the company. Today it collects fully 11% of all child-support payments taken in nationwide...
...only has the sneezing started early, but it's likely to last longer than usual. The two main brakes on high pollen counts are extreme cold and scorching heat, both of which seem to be remote possibilities this year. Even last week's cold snap did not kill enough tree buds in the East to have much effect, although snowstorms may have done the trick in the Midwest. Nor is Texas expected to experience its usual blast-furnace summer, which in most years can be counted on to burn away enough pollen-producing plants to give the state a break...
...Manor served as a residence hall for an eclectic group of British university students: Sarah Tudor, a wistful teacher-in-training prone to occasional lapses in consciousness; Terry Worth, soon to be the bohemian film critic of his generation; Robert, one of Terry's closest friends; Gregory Dudden, a cold-hearted, egocentric medical student; and Veronica, the militant lesbian whose dreams of work in the theater always remained unfulfilled. Sarah had only recently broken up with Gregory when she met both Robert and Veronica. Veronica had quickly aroused in her a new passion, forcing Sarah to make it clear that...
...skilled as the author is in strengthening certain characters, his choice to weaken Dudden by exposing the doctor's neuroses seems not to fit with the rest of the story. As a student, Dudden might have been described as cold and analytic at best. However, Coe's decision to allow the doctor to become consumed by a desire to live in a sleepless state proceeds in a forced and unconvincing direction. Insinuations that Dudden is little more than a mad scientist whose experiments in the realm of sleep deprivation must be stopped are tiresome and perhaps even inappropriate...
...Which is an uncanny repetition of last June, when Bennett first floated the prospect that Clinton?s defense would explore Jones? sexual history. He came under fire from women?s groups, and reversed course several days later, declaring he was "no fool." This time, Bennett may simply have gotten cold feet. But it's more likely that this astute purveyor of White House spin was sending a clear message to the media: We've got dirt too, and we're not afraid to use it. As with Bennett's revelation that Kathleen Willey was seeking a book deal, reporters read...