Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between are the athletes that have the ability to play two varsity sports on a Division I level. Even rarer are the athletes that can excel at both...
...Make mine rare! People who chow down on meat that's cooked medium to well done appear more likely to develop STOMACH CANCER than those who favor rarer flesh. Reason: carcinogenic chemicals can form when animal protein is heated to high temperatures for long periods of time...
...movies. Think of Ingrid Bergman, who played the femme fatale pianist who broke up Leslie Howard's marriage in the 1939 movie Intermezzo, or Amy Irving, who went mano a mano on the ivories with Richard Dreyfuss in 1980's The Competition. Prominent women instrumentalists have been much rarer in real life. During the first half of the 20th century, the severely beautiful Erica Morini, who died last month at 91, was one of the few who could lay claim to first-rank status. And Morini bristled at her categorization as a female violinist. "A violinist is a violinist...
...subtle, as befits the Senate, but they have begun to carry a powerful message. At the G.O.P.'s weekly Senators-only lunches, some Republicans now avoid sitting near him. When Packwood's colleagues gather for votes on the Senate floor, they hardly ever include him in their convivial chatter. Rarer still is the consoling sidelong murmur he used to hear so frequently: "How's it going, Bob?" The message is evident to everyone, it seems, but the Senator himself, who believes collegial sympathy may be his salvation. "A number of them are praying for me," he says...
...first, I thought the situation in the trading room occurred because of the aggressive, highpressure nature of the business, but unfortunately I discovered the situation was only somewhat better among the investment bankers, who were supposed to be more civilized. The offensive conversation was much rarer and usually took place behind closed doors, but the secretarial pool was the only division in which you could be sure to find women. Here, yes, there were female associates, but so few high-ranking women that it was painfully clear it was a man's game...