Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...camps ranges between $300 and $400 per week. Though these campers may be more computer-wise than their peers, they have not entirely abandoned tradition. Epidemics of short-sheeting coexist with robotics and PASCAL. And, like campers everywhere, eleven-year-old Evan Katzman of Homestead, Fla., is quick to give a visitor the classic rating of camp food. Says he: "It's the pits...
...clinic is part of a rising phenomenon in health care: quick-service, walk-in establishments that critics deride as "medical McDonald's." Now numbering about 150, most of them run for profit by private physicians, these places are known as freestanding emergency clinics, or FECs, because they are physically separate from hospital facilities. FECs appeared in Delaware and Rhode Island in the early and mid-1970s, but now the big growth area is the Sunbelt, particularly Texas...
...mainstream. They haven't fled to anything else of course: it's a defensive maneuver, and the result is a certain disconnected status. Cutter (John Heard), is a vet who's lost a leg, an arm, and an eye in Vietnam, a man who's tongue is too quick--sometimes it's hilarious and sometimes he should just shut up. He has no social graces, but his venom is directed out there somewhere--a romantic who has retreased to snideness since romance died. Richard Bone is a lazy Ivy League, ostensibly working around a marina selling boats, but more often...
...fingernail of the bejewelled person shown snorting cocaine was bitten to the quick. Do coke users become anxious, or do anxious people become coke users...
...power." The Navy is trying to make better use of missiles now, but in a way that still illustrates its big-ship fixation: it proposes to take two, and eventually four, World War II battleships out of mothballs and fit them as floating missile platforms. That will be neither quick nor cheap. Recommissioning the New Jersey, which has been docked at Bremerton, Wash., since the end of the Viet Nam War, would cost $326 million, but that would be just to get it afloat. Equipping it to launch 100 missiles would raise the total cost to $1 billion, according...