Word: ran
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...27/Jan. 3 issue, the New Yorker ran a long piece about autism called "An Anthropologist on Mars," and in the following issue the magazine ran a long piece called "E-Mail from Bill" about Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. In some ways, the articles were strangely and intriguingly similar...
Then, in the late 1980s, the cold war eased and the money ran low -- in part because the economy sagged as budget and trade deficits soared. American scientific breakthroughs were still leading to dazzling new products -- but too many of them were being manufactured in Japan. Pressure began to mount in Congress to cut defense funding and reshape America's amorphous research effort into a coherent program that would aid industry. But Presidents Reagan and Bush resisted the pressure because the strategy smacked of government meddling in the marketplace...
...since 1991, at D.C. General and other institutions around the country, another story is emerging. The three infants with their mobiles, pitiful as they are, represent a sharp decrease from two years ago, when the daily census of abandoned babies ran as high as 25. "We used to have them in four or five rooms," says D.C. General's communications director, Linda Ivey, proudly. "Now there's only one nursery." New York City's Harlem Hospital Center reports that its daily count has plunged from 20 to three. At Grady Memorial in Atlanta, the annual total of boarder children fell...
After reading about Rudd W. Coffey's homeless exploits, I ran right out and borrowed a wheelchair from University Health Services and sat in it for about two hours. It was a demeaning experience. First of all, it's almost impossible to get around in all this snow and people wouldn't help me; they looked right through me as if I weren't there. Plus, it's impossible to eat lunch at Quincy House--too many stairs. I had to get out and walk up them. I learned from the humiliation I had to go through, the loss...
...only damper on the festivities came when a group of first-years ran after thedefenseless nature lovers and began hurlingsnowballs...