Word: midstream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speak the language of the sighted. That's part of the first great achievement of Helen Keller. She proved how language could liberate the blind and the deaf. She wrote, "Literature is my utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised." But how she struggled to master language. In her book Midstream, she wrote about how she was frustrated by the alphabet, by the language of the deaf, even with the speed with which her teacher spelled things out for her on her palm. She was impatient and hungry for words, and her teacher's scribbling on her hand would never...
...thing for a candidate to walk across a state to meet voters. Pro-environment Democratic Senate candidate DAVID OSTERBERG (3) decided to canoe across a state--in this case, Iowa. Most voters are mainstream, Dave, not midstream...
Glenn: I've been here a long time, and I'm proud of a lot of things: work with the armed services, nuclear nonproliferation. I'll leave with about 9,500-plus roll-call votes, and they represent the midstream majority. I'll regret not working on some specific legislation...I wish we could correct campaign finance as we tried to do last year, until they made it into a political fiasco, which I regret to this...
Critics also point out that cutting off the study in midstream prevented doctors from learning a lot more about tamoxifen's longer-term effects. Will women have to take the drug for the rest of their life? Does the protective effect decrease over time? Will new side effects show up with long-term use? Will tumors that appear while a woman is on tamoxifen be harder to treat (preliminary studies suggest they may be)? Can other drugs confer comparable protection without side effects? And most important, did taking tamoxifen lengthen or shorten these women's life...
...opposing everything from gun control and abortion to the 1990 civil-rights bill--always seemed better suited to the G.O.P. And midway through the 104th Congress he became a Republican. Rewarded with a seat on the House-Senate conference committee, Parker may still be penalized by voters if his midstream switch changed expectations about his conservatism...