Word: decentering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gripe today is with--surprise, surprise--University Health Services. Now, let me preface these remarks by saying that my experience with UHS has generally been good. I like my primary care physician a lot, and I usually receive decent treatment from other aspects of the organization. But last week, suffering from a cold so bad I could barely think straight, I walked through the doors of the after-hours urgent-care unit and into a bureaucratic nightmare funnier and more disturbing than any Saturday Night Live sketch I have seen in the past year...
...committed to not permitting the university to...transform decent jobs at Yale to low wage, no benefit jobs," she said...
...think both of our shot selections are pretty decent," Feaster said of Gelman and herself. "I think we're getting good shots. I don't see it necessarily as a burden. I think you also have to look at the matchups...
...Karl killed his mother and her lover. Now, 25 years later, he is released from a mental hospital and befriended by a boy (Lucas Black) who could be a healthier version of the lonely, imperiled child Karl was and still is. Rural Arkansas is home to some very decent people--the boy Frank, his mother and her boss (Ritter), Karl and his various keepers--and one or two moral skunks, notably the loutish boyfriend (Dwight Yoakam) of Frank's mom. Sling Blade is about the difficulty good folks have living with rotten ones. The film keeps you guessing whether...
...become as unfair to a group of its members as Local 254 did. If it is racked by conflict and if the various groups of workers do not trust each other, then the new union may be no more successful than Local 254 in securing a living wage and decent benefits for its employees...