Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...weeks since Loker's grand opening, I have sipped countless cups of coffee there. I have tried nearly all the vegetarian dishes, concluding that the Coffee Shop's grilled panini sandwiches are a much better value than the pizza. I have even chatted with the man behind the candy counter about adding mangoes to his dried fruit selection. I have become a Lokerling...
...color and light is risky, because it depends on things he can't control. It's not the space that is lit, but what's in it. Much of the light has a kind of sparkle or pixillation. It reflects off the colored food packages stacked behind the counter (still visible at night even when the screens are pulled down), it comes from down-lighting bouncing off the food on the tables, and from clothing and faces. It comes from the random accumulation of multicolored notices on the bulletin boards placed the whole length of the internal "street...
...accounts counter and repair one another, holistic memory emerges. A record of the town history that eludes the wants and needs of particular souls takes shape and begins to take on a sort of independent, convincing veracity. Were it not for witnesses--that is, friends, lovers, and family--audiences would hear the most benign version of events, and dead souls' painful memories would be comfortably elided from their personal histories...
Administrators counter that the growth of the center has simply paralleled the growth of the faculties...
...1950s he made roughly $10 million selling land along the anticipated rights of way of new highways revealed to him by a patient who happened to be a public-works surveyor. Dr. Hasan, a neurologist, says he was once "rabidly anti-managed care." He built his first HMO to counter a health plan that moved into Pueblo and sapped revenue from the city's specialists. But suddenly he saw opportunity in the new medicine. Over the next few years he created a robust managed-care empire by acquiring ailing health plans--one company paid him $2.5 million to take...