Word: properous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a schizophrenic son,' we'll say 'That's a schizophrenia family.' " Advocates for the handicapped fear that in the future the physically afflicted may no longer be seen as unfortunates worthy of special treatment, but as "wrongful births," genetic errors committed by parents who failed to take proper action against a defective gene...
...county judge postponed a hearing for the person charged with raping a Harvard employee at the Science Center last December after the judge determined that the defendant was not in the proper mental state to appear in court...
Although Lowell's production seemed to lose a bit of its momentum in the third act, it picked up speed as the characters headed into the famous fourth-act "Garden" scene. Throughout, there were some truly hilarious bits by Tim Alexander, as the oh-so-proper Basilio (also doubling as Don Curzio) and Paul Lincoln, who plays the bumbling drunk Antonio. And, rounding out the cast, Karen Thompson was quite charming as Barbarina, while Laura Schall Gouillard and Al Cameron gave competent performances as Marcellina and Bartolo, Figaro's long lost parents...
...believe fundamentally that with proper maintenance and proper inspection an airplane can in fact last forever." Boeing Chairman Frank Shrontz could have been speaking for the entire airline industry when he delivered that traditional wisdom to a gathering of aviation experts in Washington last month. But just two days later, a cargo door and part of the skin tore away from a 19-year-old Boeing 747 shortly after it left Hawaii, sucking nine passengers from the plane. Investigators have not yet officially determined the cause of the failure, but they have focused on the possibility of a faulty door...
...brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between the U.S.S.R. and Nazi Germany was excused as a "defensive...