Word: grounds
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...meeting with the vendors last week, Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE) officials announced that the University would begin renovating the ground floor of Holyoke Center next summer, and would allow the vendors to operate until July, according to several vendors...
When it comes to substance-abuse treatment, however, unlike other forms of medical care, many doctors and insurers have discovered a rare parcel of common ground: nearly all acknowledge that some of the changes being imposed by managed care are long overdue. "There was a lot of waste," concedes Dr. Michael Sheehy, president of patrician Silver Hill in New Canaan, Connecticut, who says that the arbitrariness of month-long stays "made no clinical sense." Dr. William Goldman, medical director of U.S. Behavioral Health, one of the largest companies in the country, agrees. "Most of the free-standing psychiatric hospitals...
...strong old woman is an ironist. But irony is a pose, even for the strong, and in the end her solitude is achingly distilled: "Against ample evidence ... you put trust in the constancy of things ... One day you open your door, you step out in your yard, but the ground is not there and you fall into a hole that has no bottom and no sides and no color. The mystery of the hole in the ground gives way to the mystery of your fall; just when you get used to falling and falling forever, you stop; and that stopping...
...Turkish immigrants regularly cross paths with rerun footage of Brownshirts rampaging in the 1930s. Have the unholy dead returned to inhabit new bodies? Hasselbach's zombie-like voice, preserved to creepy effect by American co-author Tom Reiss, can almost make you think so. "As he lay on the ground, Frank and I kicked him in the neck, in the stomach, in the face, in the skull...and I was thinking, as I kicked, Sure, his bones are breaking beneath my feet...
When you're losing support that rapidly, building a fire wall against further damage is difficult. Yet that's what the Dole forces are attempting in New Hampshire. The counterattack is everywhere--on the ground and in the air. Dole's refusal to slam his rivals is history. Anti-Forbes TV spots are flooding the airwaves. A new one will remind voters that Forbes' flat-tax plan would end their cherished property-tax deduction. Encouraged by Dole staffers, special-interest groups have pitched in with statements like the one from a realtors' group equating the flat...