Word: match
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unlike their predecessors -who sometimes administered more kindness than medical competence-F.P.s usually have the skills to match their versatility. Before they are certified by the American Board of Family Practice, the fastest growing U.S. specialty, F.P.s must pass tough exams. Beginning next year, all new family practitioners will also have to complete three-year residencies. Now available at more than 300 hospitals, these residencies expose the fledgling F.P.s to a wide range of training-from basics of surgery and cardiology to obstetrics. Every six years they will be re-examined to make sure they have kept up with...
...Kingkill has more on its mind than special effects. The two main characters, Schlumberger and Maelzel, lock themselves in a struggle as tense and potentially humiliating as a championship chess match. Maelzel tempts the malformed Schlumberger into his machinery by using Louise Rouault, the wife of a mechanic-assistant, as bait. Eventually, Louise disappears but Schlumberger remains. The Turk frees him from the fear of losing a match publicly and gives him the power to expose Maelzel at any time. For his part, Maelzel exploits Schlumberger's gift for his own profit and dreams of a truly automated player...
...take abuse any more. In real journalism, Jack Newfield screams a similar demand, but he wants his audience to protest in closed voting booths. Rage rather than dementia drives this full-time muckraker-one reason why his novelty value has survived six books and hundreds of articles; few can match the fresh indignation he brings to old scams...
Volunteer Cuckold. Elected and appointed officials make up New York's temporary government. This feeble mechanism is no match for the permanent government: bankers, builders, lawyer-fixers, back-room pols, landlords, union leaders. Larger commercial banks profited merrily for years in the city bond trade, both as underwriters and as holders of securities. When trouble surfaced, they quietly dumped the paper. Savings institutions redlined neighborhood after neighborhood, exporting loans to suburbia instead of reinvesting in the city...
...setting is purportedly Chicago, though all of Brecht's locales are exercises in exotic fantasy. The action is centered in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Christopher Lloyd) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Grayson Hall). She masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Reverend" (John A. Coe), "the Professor" (Robert Weil) and "Mammy" (Benjamin Rayson). They are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura (Tony Azito), a Fu Manchu look-alike who speaks only in sibilants. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah...