Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graham last visited Harvard in 1982--invited because he was "an outstanding spokesman for the Christian faith, and I wanted to give him the chance to be heard more widely, especially at Harvard," Gomes said last Monday...
...Crimson not pursued the case, the rape (and perhaps future crimes) would have remained unreported in HUPD's public logs--the fault of an apparent glitch in the police departmentis computer reporting system. Moreover, it is likely that most students would never have heard about the incident, except for those close to the victim or perpetrator. And an important issue, acquaintance rape on campus, would not have gained the necessary attention it received...
...acrimonious divorce from Salinas' sister. But in the late summer of 1994, Salinas' men changed the plan: "They said [Ruiz Massieu] was too much of a threat to the Salinases, and that we'd have to kill him. I've never been so shook up as when I heard that...
...laboratory for reformers elsewhere. The landslide of litigation that critics predicted failed to materialize. Only one malpractice suit has so far been filed. The new state review panels expected to be deluged by 4,400 appeals from unhappy patients in the first year alone, but only 280 cases were heard, and in half those the boards ruled for the HMO. Doctors in the state say HMOs seem to have become more inclined to accept suggested treatments and speed the paperwork...
...computer didn't understand me. I tried talking to it reasonably, but it was fruitless. When I said, "You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to; you say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to," it heard, "Using potato vice, the auto use a tomato." While the idea of potato vice intrigued me, I was getting discouraged by my machine's tin ear. I spent a week with Dragon Naturally-Speaking Mobile ($250), a 4-oz. tape recorder that holds 40 minutes of speech and fits in the palm of my hand. It's designed to take...