Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mitterrand's response came a few hours later at a rare televised press conference. The plan, he declared, would go forward. The state had spent $2.1 billion from 1981 to 1983 to cover deficits in the steel industry, and it would probably shell out an additional $1.3 billion this year alone. "Can we go on devoting subsidies to losing enterprises forever?" asked Mitterrand. The steel plan is part of an overall restructuring program designed to make France's heavy industry competitive by trimming excess capacity and modernizing production. The process could eliminate as many as 60,000 jobs...
Slumped in a chair, twelve-year-old her face Pamela Hamil with ton of La Follette, Tenn., asked a state judge to grant a seemingly suicidal wish: not to have medical treatment for her rare form of bone cancer. Doctors had testified that without chemotherapy and radiation treatment she would die within months. But Pamela's father Larry is a minister in the Church of God of the Union Assembly, a fundamentalist sect that does not permit its members to seek medical treatment and counsels them to rely instead on the power of prayer. Despite her dramatic plea seven...
...Northeast and the Midwest. Next on their agenda is a tour of the West Coast. In the midst of their schedule last week they took time out to power-lunch at one of their favorite restaurants, Chicago's Chez Paul. The menu consisted of sirloin steak rare, breast of duck rare, sliced tomato and raw onion with Roquefort dressing...
...With rare exceptions, so has the eminence of the solitary programmer. Much of the latest personal-computer software is too complicated to be written by any individual. MSA, the big Atlanta software firm, uses at least eight people to complete a business program and sometimes as many...
...written expression of preference, the report siresses the need for doctors to listen to family members opinions on the best course of action. If there is no consensus, the doctors mind make a judgement call, ball the authors of the report say they hope these situation will become increasingly rare...