Word: gripping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold winter. On Monday, California?s Governor Gray Davis made his the third state to allow patients to sue their managed care plans for failing to provide adequate care. Along with legislation recently enacted in Georgia and Texas, California?s new law wrenches much medical decision-making from the grip of HMOs and hands it back to the patients and their doctors. In most states, HMOs are protected from liability in cases where treatment is withheld or delayed in the interest of economy ?- although if congressional Democrats, led by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), prevail in upcoming policy debates...
...peacekeepers' grip on the island remains tenuous ? they control only Dili's port, its airport and the U.N. compound, and the airport at the second city of Baucau, and haven't yet landed significant armor ? and that increases the temptation of militiamen and any renegade Indonesian forces to strike now. While international pressure may have given Indonesia more to lose than to gain by holding on to East Timor, the same isn't true for the militiamen. The unearthing Wednesday of a grisly massacre site where up to 30 victims had been beheaded underscores the fact that some militia leaders...
...corner of the University, life would somehow retain a tenuous grip. It would be in the southern part of campus, along the now-stagnant Charles, among the remains of what were once the River Houses. True to their Harvard roots, these creatures would no doubt already be hard at work building a new civilization...
...cable lock consists of a cable that loops through the slide at the top, threads down through the grip and is fastened at both ends by a padlock...
...FIGHT Though much of the nation was in the grip of a heat wave last week, the fever, aches and pain of the flu season will be here in no time. And so will relief. The FDA has approved Relenza, an inhaled anti-influenza drug that can cut the duration of symptoms by one to two days. Relenza, unlike other flu fighters, works against both type A and type B strains. Patients must start taking it soon after feeling ill and then twice daily for five days...