Word: heatedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week in Atlanta, Georgia, young fans of the rock band "Immature" crowded into a nightclub, filling it to almost twice its capacity. When the mob stormed the stage, 21 people were trampled or suffered heat exhaustion, the Associated Press reports...
...President back in the fray. "He will campaign early and often with Democratic candidates and he's going to elect a whole bunch of them," said McCurry. "He might even elect a majority in the Congress." Says TIME's James Carney: "Clinton is taking a lot of heat from Congressional Democrats for those Post comments. But, in fact, they were sensible. After all, this is not a parliamentary system in which he is first of all the head of the party. He must put some distance between himself and the Democrats. His mistake was answering the question so explicitly. Obviously...
This pairing is signaled in the novel's opening pages. In the late spring of 1910, in Paterson, New Jersey, D.W. Griffith is directing a film titled The Call to Arms. Just at the moment the leading lady, Mary Pickford, faints from the unseasonable heat, a few blocks away Presbyterian minister Clarence Arthur Wilmot loses his belief in the Divinity: "the God of the Pentateuch was an absurd bully, barbarically thundering through a cosmos entirely misconceived. There is no such God, nor should there...
...orphanages as "a secret world of starvation, disease and unnatural death." Never mind that the broad condemnation omits context: by Beijing's own conservative estimate, 70 million of China's 1.2 billion citizens live in poverty. No doubt many of those people too go wanting for food, medication and heat. More jolting is the report's liberal calculus. Presenting four-year-old information and focusing on a Shanghai institution--just one of China's hundreds of orphanages--it finds that "the pattern of cruelty, abuse and malign neglect...now constitutes one of the country's gravest human-rights problems...
...raises the question, When does a patient's insurer determine the range of options a patient is allowed to consider? The question was asked directly by one of Dr. Glaspy's colleagues, Dr. Peter Rosen. "I guess I'm not quite understanding something," he said, as the meeting gained heat. "If you know someone's a Health Net patient, do you talk to them differently than if they're somebody else...