Word: duck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made available to the general public. At present, the Data Bank is open to hospital administrators, licensing boards and HMOs. The Data Bank, established 10 years ago, was opened in large part to keep track of physicians convicted of crimes in one state who simply cross state lines to duck their criminal records. Because regulation of docs rests in the hands of the states, the national legislature was eager to find a way to monitor doctors' movements; they came up with the Data Bank...
Irregular and regular verbs embody the two underlying tricks behind the gift of articulate speech: words and rules. A word is a memorized link between a sound and a meaning. The word duck does not look, walk or quack like a duck. But we can use it to convey the idea of a duck because we all once learned to connect the sound with the idea...
BILL CLINTON Lame-duck prez loses test-ban vote. But issue could nuke G.O.P.--and W.--next year...
...Trying to sleep past 9 a.m.? You'll have to duck under the pillow while the Memorial Church bell rings for a very loud and irritating...
...Californians say they don't sit around worrying about earthquakes and mudslides; that they don't care when two professional football teams leave the state's largest city inside of three months; or that in the world capital of nutcase extremists, the guy who really seemed like an odd duck a year ago was Gray Davis, a nerdy gubernatorial candidate who claimed he would govern from the center, of all places...