Word: parred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three times I saw the frustration on the head nurse's face when she checked the work sheet and saw that too few nurses and health assistants were assigned for Saturday night--the shift when four gunshot wounds and two stabbings is par for the course...
These days faith is in short supply. So is money. Megadeveloper Lew Rudin, who heads a corporate cheerleading organization, Association for a Better New York, estimates it would take $5 trillion to bring his city back up to par. Although its annual budget is larger than that of all but two states, New York City is in a financial straitjacket, and the nation's economic downturn, more harshly reflected in the Northeast than elsewhere, offers little hope for future relief. Says financier Felix Rohatyn, who devised the plan that saved New York from bankruptcy 15 years ago: "I just...
...novel, written in epistolary form, concentrated more on the dark laughter of the rehab clinic. The movie, which drops the postcards but keeps the edge, is a show-biz mother-daughter film par excellence -- Terms of Endearment out of Gypsy. Suzanne has her poignant wrangles with movie types (nice turns by Dennis Quaid and Rob Reiner as producers, Gene Hackman and Simon Callow as directors), but Postcards is bound by family ties. MacLaine gives a wonderfully excessive rendition of the Sondheim song I'm Still Here: "First you're another sloe-eyed vamp,/ Then someone's mother, then...
...denial of tenure to Alan Brinkley, a popular junior American history professor, caused a major campus uproar. Bok explained that he thought Brinkley's scholarship was not up to par, whether or not he was a popular teacher...
Field events expert Cathy Griffin performed upto par, winning the shot put and discus andplacing third in the hammer throw, while juniorSuzanne Jones captured a victory in the 5000-meterrun and came back to finish third in the3000-meter run. Injured hurdler SenzeniSteingruber placed fourth in the 400-meterhurdles...