Word: incurability
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...passed back to the students in the form of a credit on next year's tuition for cash, in the case of graduating students). With this rebate, those of us who really do want to eat meat will be able to go elsewhere on meatless days without having to incur outrageously high food bills. Cariton M. Smith...
...other fat fad to incur the displeasure of the A.M.A. is "staplepuncture," which is based on the theory - so far unconfirmed - that there are "obesity nerve endings" in the ear. Doctors who practice the art place surgical staples in their patients' ears and instruct them to wiggle the metal clips with their fingers whenever they feel like cheating on the 400-calorie-per-day diet that accompanies the treatment...
...Sandra to seek an annulment* but the local diocese decided there was not enough evidence to justify one. In January 1973 the couple got a civil divorce. Later that year, when Sandra began to think seriously about marrying again, she stopped receiving Communion because by remarrying she would automatically incur excommunication. Priests were sympathetic, but not until she discovered Boston's Paulist Center Community did she find one who returned her to full Communion with the church. She was remarried last month in a Protestant church where her husband was a parishioner (he agreed to raise any children...
...trouble procrastination may incur, delay can often inspire and revive a creative soul. Jean Kerr, author of many successful novels and plays, says that she reads every soup-can and jamjar label in her kitchen before settling down to her typewriter. Many a writer focuses on almost anything but his task-for example, on the Coast and Geodetic Survey of Maine's Frenchman Bay and Bar Harbor, stimulating his imagination with names like Googins Ledge, Blunts Pond, Hio Hill and Burnt Porcupine, Long Porcupine, Sheep Porcupine and Bald Porcupine islands...
...competing bankers, the statement raised more questions than it answered. To incur losses that huge, they said, the employee would have had to risk approximately $250 million in currency trades, and at most banks no one could position such immense sums without having his activities come quickly to the attention of supervisors. The Securities and Exchange Commission began an investigation of another puzzling matter: that 9,500 shares of stock were purchased by about 65 bank employees just before the dividend was passed...