Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep the details secret. But now the proposals are real, and lawmakers such as freshman Republican Michael Flanagan last week found the docility wearing off when they returned to their districts. In Chicago outraged seniors parked a steamroller in front of Flanagan's office to symbolize G.O.P. efforts to rush the cuts through Congress. In Connecticut, an elderly caller to a talk-radio show gave Republican Congressman Christopher Shays an earful. Asked the caller: "Why can every other civilized country take care of its senior citizens without all these changes and hassles...
...denies that gene therapy holds extraordinary promise or that it will eventually yield results. But critics have grown increasingly concerned that the initial excitement led to a premature rush to get unproved gene therapies out of the laboratory and into human patients. Researchers are still not sure which are the best methods to transport genes into affected cells. Nor have they figured out how to stop people's own immune systems from rejecting what are, in effect, microscopic transplants of foreign material...
...mood of this adaptation of Whitney Otto's novel by writer Jane Anderson and director Jocelyn Moorhouse is sweetly subversive. It usefully insists that beneath the placid surface of middle-class life strong currents rush and eddy, carrying everyone in directions utterly unpredictable when they are young and sure of themselves. And if it doesn't provide fully developed roles for them, it does evenhandedly offer a lot of underutilized actresses (among them Jean Simmons, Lois Smith and Kate Nelligan and the poet Maya Angelou) a moment or two to remind us how good they...
...case] brought about a national civics lesson on distrusting the police and the prosecutors when they rush to judgment," said Dershowitz, who spoke from his office where he watched the conclusion of the trial on TV--while members of the news media looked...
...best students conduct research for three years," Gelbert says. "Advanced standing puts so many constraints on the [undergraduate] program that some of the things that are the most fulfilling aspects, at best, they would really have to rush through...