Word: greatly
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...prominence, and deservedly so. He scorns the religious right and the war on drugs, which nobody else dares to do. He is hard as nails on the subject of campaign financing. He is brave in so many ways, and just when you want to admire him, he shows his great capacity for silliness, and there is nothing more fatal in politics. I'm sorry, but it simply is true. Voters don't elect people to goof around...
...ignoring it, chuckling at it, trying to find a charitable explanation. But the Governor, in plain English, is a Yahoo who has never confessed to a single regret or second thought and who struts around St. Paul, a big small town, with a retinue of bodyguards, emitting a great air of celebrity, scorning the local press while courting the national media. People do their best to grin and go along with it, but eventually you have to tell him to shut the hell up. He isn't a danger to anybody. He's just big and loud and arrogant...
...three and kept one. Gutted, tailed and beheaded, it went into a cooler in the back of my rented car. The crew and I would eat it that night as sashimi. Whistling gaily, I shut the gate to Eco Beach behind me and turned left on the deserted, twilit Great Northern Highway...
...laser resurfacing requires anesthesia and good skin-care follow-up, which usually involves great globs of Vaseline or special creams and a mask. Patients can be left raw and oozing for weeks or, even worse, end up looking like the Phantom of the Opera. Skin heals faster (often in a week) with the newer Erbium lasers, which are cooler and can be used on the thinner surface of the neck and chest as well as the face, as long as the doctor exercises caution. Yet even these supposedly gentler lasers can sting and, in inexperienced hands, burn and scar...
...just as he seemed on the verge of a great success, Nichols began losing weight. This time the diagnosis was stomach cancer. Nichols launched into a search for yet another treatment. But the malignant cells were too aggressive. "He just finally realized he wasn't going to come back from it," says Lynn. Nichols died in May 1996, at 43, but by then he knew the work was probably well enough along on FGN-1 for it to be there for his son and other kids...