Word: messing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's a big political mess that no one really understands," she said. "I wouldn't say they don't know how much we need Alan, but I don't see how else they could...
Scientists are partly to blame for this mess. They have silently acquiesced in the proposition that if we just keep writing checks and leaving them alone, science could solve the problems of the world. They have promoted the presentation of themselves as antiseptic drones, whose work is uncorrupted by influences like sex, greed or ambition, which muddy life for the rest of us. But science is done by real people who do not check their humanity at the lab door. Lamentably but humanly, they do shoot their mouths off too much about God and the egregiously misnamed theory of everything...
...system for seeing patients was, by nearly all accounts, a mess. The first floor walk-in clinic was jammed and frequently chaotic, which left students, never very trusting of the health services, frustrated and angry. Some waited half a day to see doctors. Some yelled and screamed. Some left and found treatment elsewhere, or didn't find...
...leading member of Clinton's task forces has already sought to tackle the health care issue in this light. If Clinton's plan emerges within the next few weeks as promised, it will be surprising if one major facet of the scheme does not involve tidying up the bureaucratic mess...
...Never mind that Adam Sandler cost Trinity students only five dollars, even though their school is half the size of ours. Never mind that the U.C. transformed the popular De La Soul into a financial fiasco. Because not even the gang that couldn't vote straight can mess up a Grateful Dead concert...