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...Emily and her husband, a doctor, are left in a parental limbo familiar to her peers: she is on to her kids about smoking marijuana, but she knows that won't be enough to stop them. Next time she catches them, she swears, "I'll lock them in every afternoon"--but she looks doubtful even as she says it. Ultimately, she hopes, the striving for success they've grown up with will check the urge to rebel. "I want to be like Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and stop these kids from going off the cliff...
...muscle to everything from gurneys to latex gloves, the large outfits are jolting a sleepy industry. At AMR's command center atop an Aurora high-rise, five dispatchers hunched in front of consoles track 60 ambulances with the aid of satellites. In Oregon, where the firm also has a lock on most of the nonemergency transport business, AMR last year added Kaiser's 343,000 members to its client base, reflecting that industry's consolidation too. Boasts chief operating officer George DeHuff, "Big providers can see the benefits of dealing with...
...lock the door so no one enters after midnight?" he said. "Why do people have to come and go at three and four in the morning? When I was a law student, I was in bed by one o'clock...
...status quo" rally that has even seasoned traders shaking their heads. The prospect of at least two more years of Democratic President Bill Clinton pitted against a Republican-controlled Congress is just the tonic investors seem to want. Since Nov. 1, when Clinton looked to be a lock, the Dow Jones industrial average has zipped past 6100,6200 and 6300, en route to a near 6% gain...
...leave Lamont, saying, "Ha ha ha! You' didn't get your work done, did you? Wel,l too bad! It's time to go! You're a night person. I hate night people. You should be asleep by now! Asleep! Now I'm going to lock you out of a warm, quiet place to study, so you can go back to your underheated cubicle and struggle with your noisy roommates who will do everything in their power to keep you from reading. Be gone...