Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you do chip in from twenty yards out for birdie-whether through luck, skill or prayer-you have done something that even the most skilled PGA Pro cannot consistently equal...
...some things that I say because they make white men angry. Why don't I listen to that advice? Because I do not believe that anyone needs to respond to these ideas with anger, and I have great trust in white men's ability to see the value in equal representation. Many white men I know have been active crusaders for opening up spaces to others. Even more are happy and eager to share. Please join me-if you can-to bring diversity to our student government. Run for the council. It's a few hours of meetings each week...
...company needed credibility to build early capital, Knight arranged for Grum-bly of the Energy Department to attend the plant's ribbon-cutting ceremony, at which he touted the firm and suggested it could qualify for up to $200 million in grants from his department. When Molten sought equal billing with incinerators as a cleanup method for toxic waste, Browner met with the company's top executives and later signed off on a regulatory classification, rare for a process not yet in full commercial operation. It was Knight, congressional investigators say, who helped land a $460,000 Energy Department contract...
...blood also contained "therapeutic" amounts of fluoxetine (the generic name for the antidepressant Prozac) and trace amounts of tiapride, a drug used to treat various conditions and is sometimes prescribed to quiet symptoms of agitation and aggressiveness in patients being treated for alcoholism. Alcohol (in Paul's case, equal to eight or nine shots of straight whiskey) combined with the antidepressants would greatly intensify the side effects of drowsiness, impairing reflexes and vision. Paul's physician, Dr. Diane Beaulieu-d'Ivernois, says his last visit was only two days before the accident; she refuses to discuss his medical records...
DIED. BURGESS MEREDITH, 89, chameleon-like actor who performed the highbrow and lowbrow with equal enthusiasm and success; in Malibu, Calif. His Mio in Winterset (1936) simmered with earnest indignation; his Penguin in TV's Batman was gloriously over the top. He played the gentle George in Of Mice and Men, the careworn coach in Rocky and even did a gravelly voice-over for Skippy peanut butter. Meredith defended his quirky choices, saying, "I'm a man moved by the rhythms of his time, so I'll just take amusement at being a paradox...