Word: rafts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annually, had cut a deal to stay on for 90 days-a charge Dole vehemently denied--the majority leader announced that Packwood would leave office on Oct. 1 and surrender his chairmanship immediately. Now, with the less seasoned William Roth of Delaware heading Finance, Dole must manage a raft of bills--even as he runs the Senate and campaigns for President...
These will not be informational gatherings, but rather chances for students to talk about the murder-suicide, said Dunster Senior Tutor Suzi Naiburg. Representatives from the Bureau of Study Counsel and Life Raft will coordinate the sessions...
...dire prognosis for County-USC was delivered on Monday by L.A. County chief administrative officer Sally Reed. Saying that she wanted to "put reality on table," Reed announced that the county risked insolvency unless it could make up a $1.2 billion budget shortfall within a year. She suggested a raft of drastic measures: a 20% cut in services, the elimination of 18,255 jobs and the closing of 30 parks and 15 libraries. But the biggest savings would come from shutting down the 9,000-employee County-USC Center, with its annual $803 million budget...
...have been diminished, doctors believe, by lowering the dosages used in hormone-replacement therapy (HRT). The risk of uterine cancer, in particular, can be virtually eliminated, experts say, by adding synthetic progesterone (progestin) to the estrogen prescription, either combined in one capsule or as a separate pill. Meanwhile a raft of studies showing new and unexpected benefits has propelled medical enthusiasm for the treatment to huge, if not quite Wilsonian, proportions. Estrogen, it seems, can prevent or slow many of the ravages of aging, including...
...scenes, makes an ideal command headquarters. Atop the highest ground in the city, he can survey the entire territory he hopes to conquer-and plot the ambush he says can clinch that victory. By fall, Gingrich predicted in an interview with TIME, the Republican Congress will have passed a raft of bills to implement its seven-year plan to balance the budget and will confront Bill Clinton with an excruciating choice. He will have to sign on to spending cuts that will inflame his Democratic supporters or veto them and force the shutdown of all but the most essential federal...