Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main conference speakers. They knew he had taken the other flight. "Larry had no trouble sleeping on planes," Symms said later. "So he stayed on board during the stopover, and we never saw him." Added Helms: "Maybe if we had, we would have persuaded him to join us-or he might have got us to join...
Kentucky Congressman Carroll Hubbard also got off Flight 015. He had expected to join McDonald on Flight 007, but had canceled his reservation at the last minute in order to accept a speaking engagement in Kentucky. McDonald had originally been booked on Sunday's Flight 007, but had missed it when his connecting plane from Atlanta was diverted because of thunderstorms in New York City. He had time to catch a Pan Am flight to Seoul but preferred the lower fare he had arranged with...
...Marielitos are violent criminals and former mental patients, forced by President Fidel Castro to leave the country. "Two groups were on the boatlift: those who came and those who were sent," explains Miami-based Painter Victor Gomez, who says he arranged to be falsely classified as a delinquent to join the exodus. "It was Castro's diabolical strategy to give all Cuban exiles a bad image and get rid of antisocials...
...spirit of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," hospitals are opening up their own outpatient surgical centers, some within their existing facilities and some outside. Humana Inc., a hospital chain based in Louisville, reports that 76 of its more than 90 hospitals have established "day surgery" centers. "It's one of the fastest growing services we have," says Chris Wurster, a spokesman for Denver's Lutheran Medical Center, which is building a $14.6 million outpatient surgical wing. The competition between conventional hospitals and surgical centers is fierce, but the winners, most observers agree...
...Brill was infatuated early with French culture ("the nuances of Verlaine maddened him with idolatrous joy"). In 1942, when French police rounded up Paris' Jews, the adolescent escaped to the basement of a convent school. There, harbored by nuns, Brill dreamed of founding a Jewish school that would join "the civilization that invented the telescope with the civilization that invented conscience...