Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time, clinical programs were influencing people, and had a substantial impact," says Robert L. Hill, Aetna Life and Casualty's assistant vice president for law and public affairs. "But now people are on the `fast track' and say, `too much work to do, have to get ahead, have to pay back student loans.' So they're not doing as much pro bono as they used...
Despite the strong Brown attack, the Crimson defense held fast and effectively broke up the Bruin corners, keeping the score down to 1-0 at halftime...
...They fast-forward through 90 minutes of regulation, which ended in a 1-1 deadlock. They keep going through 26 minutes of scoreless overtime...
...Franciscans, however, were not ready for burial. They zealously pitched in to what must rank as one of the greatest comebacks in history. By April 23, plans for the first new downtown building were published, and others followed at a dizzying pace. They moved so fast that within weeks about 1,000 makeshift saloons were doing business and political fighting had broken out again. Ex- Mayor (also ex-Governor and ex-U.S. Senator) James Phelan, who lost a fortune in the disaster, led an attack on the corrupt municipal government with one hand and with the other helped...
Griggs did his best to reassure his neighbors in the press box, most of them out-of-town sportswriters more conversant with split-fingered fast balls than the Richter scale. But both Griggs and Wyss became concerned when stadium light towers began whipping back and forth. Says Wyss: "The stadium kept swaying faster and faster. I thought, how much more can it take before it caves in? I felt utterly helpless. Then it stopped...