Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lyng recorded 12 saves, which is not exactly an eye-popping number, but this does not reflect some of the critical saves he made, nor the fact that he looked very solid overall in net. It was only one year ago that Lyng began suffering serious digestive pains that threatened to end the valuable goalie's season...
...August the number of believers had doubled, to about 50--and suicide had arisen as an option. At a hotel meeting room near Worcester, Massachusetts, Do met with his disciples to reflect on the matter. Says Sawyer: "It was mentioned that we should not discount the possibility that the Next Level is not going to pick us up and we'll have to be the ones to leave our vehicles behind." He adds, "I felt a sense of life preservation. I felt like I wanted to live." The separation was swift, as it had always been when a disciple chose...
...have little to do with the quality of care. For starters, some HMOs have simply declined to participate in these surveys or submit to the accreditation process established by the nonprofit National Committee for Quality Assurance. Moreover, a recent Massachusetts study found that high member "satisfaction" rates reflect good customer relations, not necessarily good medicine...
...greater scrutiny than ever before--dating back, at least, to then Vice President Dan Quayle's famous 1992 speech in which he lambasted the character Murphy Brown for choosing to have a child out of wedlock. One can endlessly debate the question of whether television influences society or reflects it: Does Ellen Morgan's coming out in what is still our massest medium legitimize homosexuality, or does the sponsorship of a bottom-line business like ABC merely reflect its acceptance by a significant portion of the population? Clearly, the answer is both, that TV and culture play off each other...
...explanation is that literature is no more immune to changing fashions than any other form of entertainment. Novels that reflect only the glittering moment usually turn out to be artifacts, not art. Another reason is that literary fiction of the past two decades, good at dramatizing personal crises, has rarely attempted to engage the tumult of the wider world. Social disorder is handled more efficiently in nonfiction, journalism or seductively moving images. Who needs to plow through an imaginative verbal construct when the content is available in more accessible forms...