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Word: high (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS disparity between high costs and low benefits partly exists because of a profound bias towards institutional health care in this country. Expensive neonatal hospital units which miraculously save the lives of low birthweight babies are rewarded with glamorous news stories and bigger budgets. In contrast, less popular residential clinics which deliver prevention-oriented prenatal care are massively underfunded...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A Healthy Life for Infants | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...exact figure of those killed by the accident is not yet known, but their number is measured by hundreds and hundreds," a television correspondent said on the nightly news. He said the death toll was high because burning liquified gas from the pipeline spewed into the railroad cars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hundreds of Soviets Killed in Explosion | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...acceptance speech, Wilson indicated that she gives high priority to Radcliffe's continuing evolution as a research institution for women's scholarship and to issues of women in science. However, she did not specify the role she sees for Radcliffe in oversight of the position of women at Harvard. Thus far, she seems to echo Horner's priorities, and thus Horner's shortcomings. Though Wilson has obviously been briefed on the key issues concerning undergraduate women, she has yet to give specific indications of her plans to address these concerns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leadership for Women | 6/5/1989 | See Source »

...Layzer said in an earlier interview, "It is very important that the new president be a person of high scholarly reputation. The president will be able to accomplish her objectives more effectively if she commands respect...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Wilson Selected as New Radcliffe President | 5/31/1989 | See Source »

...film's prologue, young Jones is chased and chastened by a band of scavengers. The gang's leader tells Indy, "You lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it." Real-life flashback: when Ford was about young Indy's age, he entered a junior high school where, he recalls, "the favorite recess activity was to take me to the edge of a sharply sloping parking lot, throw me off, wait for me to struggle back to the top, then throw me off again. The entire school would gather to watch this display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: What's Old Is Gold: A Triumph for Indy | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

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