Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...General. The total number of beds has been reduced from 1,700 to 1,514, and Samuel Thier, president of Massachusetts General, hopes to get that number down to 1,000. A first-year saving of $47 million out of a total combined budget of $1.1 billion seems to confirm what critics of the old teaching-hospital model, such as Alan Sager, professor at Boston University's School of Public Health, have long maintained: these blue-chip institutions had fat "marbled throughout the system like a prime steak...
Food and Drug Administration Chairman David Kessler said the agency and White House officials are discussingnew ways to regulate tobacco products. But he did not confirm a report in the New York Times that the agency will recommend to President Clinton that nicotine be classified as an addictive drug. Responding to the Times report, House Speaker Newt Gingrich said the FDA had "lost its mind." Seeking to diffuse the situation, Clinton would only say that children should be discouraged from smoking...
...were told to set their friend-or-foe system to frequency 52. When the fighters, under orders to shoot down any Iraqi aircraft they encountered, saw two helicopters on their radar screens, their sophisticated electronics failed to identify the choppers as "friendly." After a hurried, heart-pounding attempt to confirm their suspicions visually, the fighter pilots fired two missiles that destroyed the two Army Black Hawks and killed all 26 people on board...
...until Tuesday evening, nearly five days after the shoot-down, did NATO planes flying over the region finally confirm that they were getting more extensive transmissions from what was thought to be O'Grady's radio beacon. It was still not possible to know whether the signal was O'Grady's or was just a Serb trick to lure aircraft in close, but now the Pentagon threw a massive intelligence net over the region. CIA spy satellites initiated a continuous sweep of northern Bosnia, hoping to photograph O'Grady on the ground. Air Force reconnaissance craft and signal intercept planes...
...though, from its vantage point above the earth's blurry atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed and spectacular images ever taken of these stellar nurseries, and they confirm that the theorists had it exactly right. The photos don't show the stars themselves, which are shrouded behind dense clouds of cosmic dust. But they do show enormous jets of gas blasting out of the young suns at speeds of up to 300 miles per sec. and with enough force to propel them trillions of miles into deep space. One of the pictures is a surprisingly clear...