Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never ends," he adds. If you are constantly "buffing up your resume for the next launching pad, you're wasting your worthwhile time...
...Drink, Public Awareness, Products and Services, Travel and Transport, and Entertainment and Leisure. The big winners, not surprisingly, were American, Japanese, and Western European advertisers but the Australians, Russians, and South Americans were not overlooked. The majority of the American winners first aired during the Super Bowl, the launching pad for new, creative commercials. Interestingly the judges at the Cannes Festival usually failed to resist cultural stereotypes, almost all of the winning American commercials were ones for Little Caesar's, Pepsi and Budweiser...
...play reaches the climax of its feverish surreality when Santa and Rosemary Kennedy show up at the Somerville pad and take over the apartment, gratuitous water bong and all. Small-time Socialist Perry (O'Toole), held up at gunpoint, still reverts to his typical over-inflated dictatorial style: "If this is some sort of bluff, it's poorly executed...
...most controversial example is Proposition 215. It would permit patients with cancer, aids, glaucoma, arthritis and other serious illnesses to grow, possess and use marijuana. It would also allow doctors to "prescribe" pot without fear of prosecution--or merely to recommend it, without committing themselves to a note pad. Though the change would not overrule federal or state laws that criminalize the recreational use of marijuana, Prop 215 would provide voter-approved legal backing for patients or doctors who were hauled into court. A poll shows that California voters favor it by about...
...Prudential and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The two insurance giants cover more than 50 percent of the $12 billion Medigap market. The group attributed much of the increase in premiums to hospital outpatient charges, which are not capped for Medicare beneficiaries -- and therefore represent an opportunity for hospitals to pad costs. Said Geraldine Dallek, the group's health policy director: "As Medicare squeezed part of the balloon in terms of inpatient costs, the other part of the balloon has expanded." The bad news for seniors: the rise in Medigap premiums far outpaced Medicare inflation or Social Security Cost of Living adjustments...