Word: level
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These seniors are the most intense, tough people I know," junior Anne Browning said. "Their level of intensity and determination cannot be replaced. I'll really miss racing with them...
...wave of changes swept the library in the '80s and '90s, including bar codes on books, consolidation of electronic catalogs under the Hollis Plus on-line system, computer access, carpeting of the reference room, the opening of the government documents and microfilm room on the first level, the Center for Students with Disabilities and the new language resource center on the sixth floor...
...Congress, two Senators who have seen family members with mental illness benefit from modern treatments are trying to improve access to care for others. Republican Pete Domenici of New Mexico and Democrat Paul Wellstone of Minnesota have introduced a bill that would force employers to provide the same level of coverage for mental and physical illnesses. Although the bill would represent the most meager of advances--it would help only those well enough to work--its passage will still require a monumental lobbying effort. Business groups are already working against it, saying it's part of a liberal package...
...mail project that got Gullichsen and his longtime business partner, Eric Lyons, thinking. The ever growing Web now has hundreds of millions of sites, most organized into three so-called top-level domains: com net and org The demand for com names has advanced to the point where speculators who snap up the most valuable ones can resell them for thousands and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Three Star Wars sites--EPISODEI.com and its two sequels--were recently sold for $1 million on eBay.) Given that the number of websites is doubling every year, the demand...
Dolores Pilcher, 67, a retired nurse living in Mount Airy, N.C., knows her risk of heart disease only too well. Both her father and an aunt died of heart attacks when they were still pretty young, and her cholesterol level has soared over the past few years. So when she heard that scientists were trying to determine if drinking a soy-protein milk shake every day could lower cholesterol levels, she volunteered to take part in the experiment. To Pilcher's delight, the total amount of cholesterol in her blood fell from 245 mg/dl to 205 mg/dl and the level...