Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incident comes only five months after an accident in Converse Hall, a lab building adjacent to Mallinckrodt. An explosion occurred there in early May while students were taking an annual inventory of chemicals. Three students were treated at Massachusetts General Hospital following that blast...
...there is no shortage of gold braid: each Army division currently has 30 generals--up from 14 in World War II. The Air Force boasts a general for every 23 airplanes (down from 244 planes), and the Navy has an admiral for every 1.6 ships (down from 130 ships...
Opponents of the rule, though, are not simply pointing fingers. Two weeks ago, the Louisiana attorney general filed suit in federal court seeking to prevent the program from going into effect in his state. A hearing on the motion is being held this week. And Louisiana Representative Bob Livingston, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has attached a rider to the HHS funding bill that would block the rule for one year...
...long as she can remember, Candace Scott, 35, has suffered from a consuming addiction. Every spare cent goes to feed her habit, and her husband is hooked just as hard. O.K., so collecting items related to Ulysses S. Grant, the Civil War general turned President, is not as harmful as, say, crack cocaine. But it is now an obsession turbocharged by technology...
...projection-screen set goes for $6,999. Panasonic's 56-in. projection model might appear to be a bargain at $5,999, but it can pick up only nondigital broadcasts--unless you buy the optional $1,700 digital decoder. Prices will eventually drop, of course, but Bill Mannion, general manager of Panasonic's TV division, acknowledges, "It's going to be a while, maybe years," before most consumers can afford HDTV...