Word: frequently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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News broadcasts also carried frequent updates on the skyrocketing sales of the Touchdown Towel (the natural successor to the Series' Homer Hanky), daily footage of Vikings touching their toes, and shots of players' wives arriving at airports...
Doctors saw ways to protect their incomes from corporate budget cutters. One tactic: scheduling more frequent office visits for patients. Physicians also began to sell prescription drugs as a profitable sideline. In all, nonhospital expenditures grew last year by 10%. Says Deborah Steelman, a health-care analyst for Epstein Becker & Green, a Washington-based law firm: "We squeezed on one end of the system, and it came out on the other...
...Iowa is now the nation's third oldest state. The nonpartisan American Association of Retired Persons, boasting 300,000 members in the state, is spending $250,000 on TV ads and phone banks to prompt older Iowans to make their presence felt on caucus night. Senior-citizen centers are frequent campaign stops, as most candidates vie to affirm their commitment to the sanctity of ever rising Social Security benefits. Only Babbitt, who advocates full taxation of benefits for the affluent, and Dole, who is willing to freeze cost of living adjustments, dissent from this united front of pandering politicians...
...Hanoi, dips toward and away from the South China Sea on its way 250 miles up the coast. The van passes through places remembered dimly as wartime datelines. Phan Thiet, Phan Rang and Cam Ranh Bay, now a Soviet naval base, appear then recede outside the van's windows. Frequent ambushes and well-placed mines rendered many sections of Route 1 impassable to U.S. forces and the French military before them. Now a Manhattan-like roadscape of potholes and flooded-out bridges merely makes for fanny fatigue. Roaming chickens, dogs, cows, ducks, water buffalo and humans further obstruct the journey...
...contradiction between feeling sad because you don't know how to help and being frightened because one of the people asking for help may hit you on the head," says Michael Zeik, 64, who runs a gauntlet of beggars at New York City's Grand Central Terminal on his frequent visits to Manhattan from his suburban home...