Word: lighteners
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last Tuesday, the joking had returned, but the campaign was on pins and needles again. In his heart, McCain thought he was going to lose the crucial Michigan primary. His wife Cindy tried to lighten the mood, saying that since it had rained that morning, a rarity in parched Arizona, they had an omen of victory. Early Tuesday afternoon, McCain gathered with his staff in the sprawling kitchen of his Phoenix home, where he had just had a haircut. His four younger children ran in and out of the room. "Jack's a pork-barrel spender," joked 11-year...
...selfish and flighty to be taken very seriously by the audience. Her angst is more the product of an impending mid-life crisis than of any serious problem in her life. As her mother, Sadie Kirkwood (Patricia Pellows in a superb performance) points out, Barbs just needs to "lighten...
...invested in the stock market than ever. The growth of their portfolios tempers all that. And I'm well aware that Internet stocks with aggregate net losses and annual revenue of just $30 billion now carry $1 trillion of market value. O.K., that's a burden. But it will lighten gradually as winners and losers shake out. I can hold on long enough. This is the Viagra age. An old guy like me can prop up a lot more than he used...
Managed care was meant to lighten the load on emergency services by emphasizing affordable preventive care that would keep people out of the ED. Instead, says Dr. Vincent Markovchick, emergency-services chief at Denver Health Medical Center, "the exact opposite has happened." Like many ED docs, he contends that primary-care physicians--feeling overworked and discouraged from doing expensive "extra" tests like an MRIs or EKGs--often hand off patients to the ED. Now patients who turn up there are sicker than ever before. Today 20% of visitors are admitted to the hospital, compared with around 12% a decade...
...play some sports--anything to lighten it up," Peabody Terrace Building Manager Pamela N. Cornell told the crowd...