Word: eye
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...eye-opening experience," says Hughes, now a student at Harvard Business School. "It stimulated my creativity and overall helped me think about my place in the global community...
Implicit in Schachten's defense is the presumption that the government keeps a keen eye on nursing homes. A decade ago, Congress passed a major nursing-home reform bill, which did help to cut down on the use of physical restraints and tranquilizers. But in 1995 a quarter of the nation's nursing homes failed even to assess each patient's needs or develop individual care plans, federal records show. Even more failed to ensure sanitary food, and about 1 in 5 didn't provide proper treatment for bedsores...
...then, two weeks ago, Scher took the stand and delivered the third version of Dillon's death. On June 2, 1976, Scher said, Dillon looked him "right in the eye" and asked if he was having an affair with his wife. "What could I do? I said yes." The two men proceeded to argue and, Scher said, Dillon grabbed a gun. "I heard a scream or a yell, and I saw he had the 16-gauge in his hand. I knew I had to get that gun away from him. There was a struggle, and the gun went...
...Adams, the key to reading is that words must be recognized almost instantly so that the brain can be free to comprehend what is being read. Eye-movement studies show that readers do fixate on virtually every letter in the text. It has also been shown that readers "sound out" words unconsciously. Each letter, then, must be sounded out with incredible speed. Of course, in English there are many different ways for sounds to be represented by letters. In Adams' scheme, a reader does not have to learn all these combinations; once phonemic awareness is established and some sound-letter...
...neurotic that we find a group as positive as the Promise Keepers a threat, perhaps we should keep an eye on the Boy Scouts!" CHUCK BOWEN Pelham...