Word: granted
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There was no mention of abolitionism, except to say that "efforts to free the slaves began in the South; ironically, Gen. U.S. Grant was a slave owner while Gen. Robert E. Lee freed his slaves." The museum even implied that President Lincoln worded the Emancipation Proclamation so that his in-laws in Kentucky could legally keep their slaves...
...MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as the "genius grant," also includes health coverage and comes with no strings attached--the money can be used for any purpose the winner chooses...
...such as her artistic predilection. Query and Kazmierazak attended birthing classes and doctor's visits together, and Kazmierazak attended the birth. The two women brought Zoey home to Kazmierazak's house. The moms, seeking to establish a legal relationship between Kazmierazak and Zoey, were able only to execute a grant of custody to Kazmierazak, which gave her permission to take the child to doctor's visits and enroll her in day care...
...flat-out comedies, movement means the rapid flapping of a wise mouth. Cartman and his smartass school chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids...
...study also highlights the potential for managed-care companies to do good epidemiological studies. Funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Carlos Iribarren and colleagues from Kaiser Permanente combed through the computerized medical records of the company's health plan in Northern California and found 16,228 men who had never smoked cigarettes or cigars and another 1,546 men who smoked only cigars. Then they studied the men's medical histories from 1971 to 1995 to see how they fared...