Word: flighted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Workers who try to organize face a 60 percent chance of plant closure... and possible capital flight to a foreign market," she said. "Globalization is used as a hammer to hit workers over the head when they try to do something good in the domestic economy...
After a break, in which she consumes her standard post-op refreshment--grape juice mixed with Fresca--Tuttle walks down a flight of stairs and into the dimly lit and nearly deserted waiting room. "I know you're exhausted," she tells a pale Kim Hunter. "He's doing fine. The new liver is in, and the old one is out. He's been stable the whole time. We have two more hookups to go." She hugs Kim, who tells the doctor, "I ain't leaving. Thank...
Hyde's stubbornness and common sense spring partly from his hometown. His suburban Chicago district is just a few miles from the Howard Street apartment where he grew up. One flight up from a saloon, the flat was all the family could afford during the Depression, as his father barely held on to his job collecting nickels from pay phones. His parents were Democrats by default. "If you lived in Chicago in the '30s, you were a Democrat," says longtime friend Philip Corboy. The stronger influence in Hyde's life was Catholicism. Coaxed by his mother, he attended St. George...
...goes as planned, Deep Space 1, scheduled for launch later this month, will be the forerunner of a new generation of spacecraft. While flight planners hope the ship will make some interesting observations about the target asteroid, including its composition and the structure of its surface, DS1's prime assignment is to validate a host of new technologies NASA had always considered too risky to try on a high-profile mission. Says Marc Rayman of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, DS1's chief engineer: "We have an unproven propulsion system, powered by an unproven solar array, commanded by an unproven navigation system...
...Robert Califf, arguably one of the most important people at Duke Med, is on a flight to Washington, where he is scheduled to lead an international strategy session on how heart-failure drugs should be studied. As director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, he is charged with doing whatever he can to take the guesswork out of medical care, and he has a specific statistic he wants to change. "Only 15% of the decisions a doctor makes every day are based on evidence," he recites...