Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saved most of Cambridge from financial disaster. A number of activist groups--most notably the Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods--have opposed Healy for what they perceive to be his selective agenda. They say that Healy is not equally accessible to all members of the community, and is especially deaf to groups defending the environment and aesthetic concerns of the city...
...read public anger at Baird's actions as a sign that no one with employee-related problems is eligible for public office. Baird's case was a unique one: her lame attempts to align herself with working mothers by bemoaning the difficulty of finding good child care fell on deaf ears when it was revealed that she and her husband make over $600,000 a year and were paying their nanny less than six dollars an hour...
...Nelson Yaun-Sheng Kiang, a professor of physiology at the Harvard Medical School and the head of the program, said he hopes the program will address medical issues ranging from learning disorders to new artificial hearing mechanisms for the deaf...
Hannah V. Boyle '96, who did not know anysigns, said the program gave her "an insideperspective into the world of the deaf by beingforced to find alternative methods ofcommunication...
Miller, who was born hearing but became deaf at the age of 15 months from spinal meningitis, swam on the 1992 U.S Deaf Olympic Team...