Word: floors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been waiting for months to take him down a peg. His issue, campaign-finance reform, was up for debate in the Senate. One after another, Senators from his own party baited him, hoping to bring out his famous temper. "They tried to get him to explode on the floor," says McCain's ally, Democrat Russ Feingold. "They tried as hard as they could." McCain rocked in his shoes; he folded and then unfolded his arms; he fidgeted with the papers on his lectern. But the man once crowned Senator Hothead did not blow. As he remembers...
...wiggle room is offered under mergers done according to the "community model." In that case, a Catholic hospital will join another institution and essentially tolerate forbidden practices in an area kept physically and administratively separate. That's how it works in Detroit, where a hospital has designated its top floor as a discrete facility that offers full reproductive services...
When you get home, give your cranky baby a snack and a drink and get one for yourself. Sit on the floor with him and swap gurgles about the office and the playpen. Full-time mothers face a different challenge: to help their babies gain, perhaps through a play group, the social and developmental skills they might otherwise pick up in day care. Chances are, the researchers will be after them next, giving a different set of moms a headline to feel bad about...
...conclusion of her talk, Kaminer opened the floor for discussion. Not all of the members of the audience, composed of other fellows and community members, shared Kaminer's views...
...flight data recovered indicates only that until then it had been an "uneventful" flight, according to NTSB chairman Jim Hall. More than anything else, the data from the first black box only emphasizes the need to recover the second one - the voice-data recorder - from the ocean floor...