Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...institutions most closely associated with the controversial incident refused to join the fray: For six days after the recommendations became public both the University and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) maintained a puzzling silence...
Some bankers were unhappy about he bidding battles. Said one Massachuetts S and L executive: "There is no doubt hat some institutions have reacted in an undignified manner." Edward Melcher, enior vice president of Atlantic Federal Savings & Loan Association in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., which did not join the fray, said it reminded him of a price...
...apartments, I'd have no nurse vacancy problems." Park way General Hospital in North Miami Beach pays a $300 bounty to employees for each nurse they help recruit - if the nurse stays for one year. The hospital also gives out-of-state nurses $1,000 to help de fray moving costs, but that was not enough for one husband-wife nurse team who took jobs with another hospital because it paid for the move and offered free day-care facilities as well...
Body Heat-wonderful title-bears a family resemblance in plot and tone to James M. Cain's Double Indemnity: a man more ordinary than he thinks he is meets a newly rich femme fatale; sparks fly, plots hatch, a husband dies, insurance claims are debated, friendships fray, the lovers quarrel and part explosively. And though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir...
...constituents work on the project, and there is the promise of 4,000 more jobs for the seven-year duration of construction. "In large measure," says one congressional aide, "the Reagan support is due to the fact that Baker is for it." Yet Baker barely had to enter the fray. Admits one of his aides: "This year we didn't have to save it ourselves. We didn't have to do that much." Republican Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who worked to kill Clinch River in the House, insisted that his toughest opponent was Howard Baker...