Word: iras
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lights' coach, Steve Gladstone, had originally sought a spot in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships this Friday and Saturday. But the IRA refused to allow a lightweight crew to challenge its heavy-weight contenders, so Gladstone and the lights chose the Pan Am trials instead...
Perhaps the refusal by the IRA will turn out to be a good turn for the lights, since the trials-which include the best boats from the IRA Championships and other club boats-carry even more prestige...
...pressure has crushed many war heroes. World War II Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington returned to take to the bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done...
...heavily enough to match the Federal Government's contributions to the program, and some, like Washington, D.C., simply ran out of money last year, leaving the poor as vulnerable as they were without the plan. Thus Medicaid, like welfare, is subject to local quirks and disparities. Ira Jay Thau, 23, a New Yorker whose existence depends upon regular kidney dialysis, cannot take a job without losing the Medicaid benefits that pay for his treatment. Says he: "If I try to be a useful member of society by getting a job, then I lose the only thing that keeps...
...students acquitted of disruption changes included Bonnie E. Blustein '72, Amy C. Brodkey '71, Claudio S. Buchwald '71, Alan J. Garfinkel, a third-year GSAS student, Ira D. Helfand '72, David N. Hollander '71, Peter H. Levy '71, Paul Parravano '73, and John H. Petrey...