Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard isn't a flash in the pan. We want a team with history," Yeo said...
Decent health care costs big bucks. But treating four-legged, furry or feathered invalids doesn't come cheap either. Consider this Christmas fable -- a true story -- about Flash, an eight-year-old golden retriever currently living in Washington...
...Flash's problem seemed to be self-inflicted -- a bleeding stomach wound caused by his habit of chewing up and swallowing every splintery stick he could get his teeth on. But first the vet had to rule out rat poison and cancer with a blood test ($45) and a liver scan ($140). Then there was the emergency work-up ($45), followed by a catheter ($30), urinalysis ($22), a steroid injection and lab work to check organ function ($71); anesthesia ($345); an IV attached to a leg ($110); a biopsy ($45); upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy for fiber-optic images...
...final reckoning, which listed 29 items, came to $1,036.40. Plus $30 for a shampoo to wash away that nasty kennel odor. Flash will be sleeping on his favorite rug underneath the Christmas tree this week. Santa may bring him a nice rubber toy to chew on instead of those lethal sticks. And how about a pet health-insurance plan for his impoverished owners...
...remembers what that is, used to work something like this: You pretend to work, and we pretend to pay you. Let's do the same for this embryonic snit: The IOP pretends to bring Duke, and we pretend to freak out. It's efficient, satisfying and over in a flash...