Word: ills
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Then, the ill-fated omens began to emerge...
Brian Dale wants to manage the largest Internet magazine for people under 30. The 1995 University of Rochester grad, now a Web designer in Evanston, Ill., hopes to fill what he sees as a void on the Internet with a new on-line magazine called...
...since siphoned power away from the President and are running the country through him. While Korzhakov says he feels sorry for Yeltsin, don't look for the granite-faced former KGB employee to go easy on the President who is now a bitter enemy. Yeltsin, in any case, is ill equipped to stand up to public scandal. For the first time since the President's disappearance from public view, a Kremlin official conceded Tuesday that Yeltsin's recovery is going slower than expected...
This is precisely why tinkering with percentage points in the summa standards is ill-advised: students in the running for highest honors have extremely close cumulative averages as it is. With the value of grades as a measuring stick diminished by inflation, notching up standards cannot be seen as a legitimate way to separate those deserving summa cum laude designation from their undeserving peers. There is just not enough integrity in the difference between an A-and a B+ in Expos to make this distinction more important in separating the wheat from the chaff...
...even a "Jesus" into an otherwise civil service; to avoid such sabotage, O'Hair had obtained certification to perform marriages. She now pronounced the couple man and wife. It was a lovely moment, Kerns recalls, though, inevitably, he was nipped by one of O'Hair's several ill-tempered little dogs. Afterward, he says, "there was music and champagne, and we went out to dinner. And Madalyn. Madalyn is funny. She's the funniest person on earth." He pauses. "If she's still on earth...