Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obtaining a Social Security number can be a real bench mark in life. This finding applied to our own correspondents. "I first got my Social Security card at 16 in Chicago," says Atlanta Bureau Chief Joe Boyce. "Little did I know then that I was entering into a lifelong relationship with federal, state and local bureaucracy." Recalls Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin: "I well remember when I received my Social Security card. It still bears the name of my employer at the time. And it is one of the few things I have never lost." Says Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey...
...skinny, and nobody is very far away from somebody else." Almost every publisher faces a rival whose territory stretches to within a town or two of his own. Second, many of the new arrivals are affluent and thus are enticing to advertisers; many others are elderly and loyal, lifelong readers of newspapers. Third is the tourist trade, which in smaller markets can augment circulation by as much as 30%. Fourth is a tradition of operating papers as public institutions, not just money-making machines, set by the late owners of the two biggest and best Florida dailies, John Knight...
...stream of come-to-the-Lord nights for, barring the Pope, the most popular preacher on this planet. But his stream is not unchanging, every night has not been the same. The sermon he gave Wednesday was a stop too on an intellectual and ethical pilgrimage for Graham, a lifelong journey from what he was to what he will become...
...This left him in "constant pain, unable to do any lifting or bending." His disability request: $30,240 a year. According to the Globe, he had taken out nine separate accident insurance policies shortly before his auto mishap, and the only witnesses to the accident were three of his lifelong friends; the newspaper also reported that he was seen lifting packages, driving and walking with no apparent stiffness. Now all pension requests are coming under close public scrutiny. Huffs Sinnott: "I thought this was confidential...
...less than two: "Mostly she talks her own language which she enunciates very fluently. Understands everything." By Hannah's adolescence, that could no longer be considered a mother's exaggeration. She was far ahead of her class at Konigsberg, and at Marburg University she began a lifelong affair with philosophy, and a shorter, scarcely less passionate one with a philosopher...