Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wait much longer to see which side of this canyon it ends up on. According to Wright, the decision is expected to be made by next Monday. In the meantime, thousands of locals are hoping the movie marquee across the street from their beloved post office isn't a grim coincidence. In stark black capital letters, it reads, THE RELIC...
Throughout the debate over assisted suicide, it has been understood that a certain number of American doctors--between 7% and 9%, say researchers--have been willing to help desperate patients die, regardless of legal sanction. But a study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine provides a grim window into the revised norms of a plague community. A group led by clinical psychologist Lee Slome reports that in a survey of 118 San Francisco-area physicians working with AIDS patients, 53% indicated (via an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire) that they had knowingly prescribed a deadly dose of narcotics...
...Frank Salizzoni said that Massey left to pursue other interests, and said he will assume Massey?s responsibilities until a successor is found. Block discouraged speculation that Massey's departure was related to this Thursday?s release of CompuServe?s third quarter financial results, which are expected to be grim. On the service's website, Massey notes that 1996 was a trying time for CompuServe shareholders, who have watched the company's stock fall from about $30 a share when it went public in April to $10.811/4 Friday. The company lost $88 million in the six months ending...
Feingold refers to the ringleader of the resistance, Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, as "the Grim Reaper of campaign-finance reform." But majority leader Trent Lott is the key player, and he resists reforms like free TV time for candidates and public financing of campaigns, which he calls "food stamps for politicians." Feingold insists that Lott doesn't "want to be tagged as the person who killed campaign reform. He's leaving the door open." But privately, aides to the G.O.P. leadership say it's pretty well shut...
...longer mask the grim realities of poverty," he said. "It's my job to reveal for our citizens the face of poverty as it exists at the dawn of a new millennium...