Word: sanding
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Capitol Hill is the last best public place in America for smokers, a refuge where lighting up is countenanced as both a venerable tradition and an up-to-the-minute political statement about the evils of overregulation. The marble halls are decorated with sand-filled brass or ceramic urn ashtrays. Twin glass ashtrays on pedestals flank the entrance to the Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke...
...drawn a line in the sand. But of course that works only if the other side sees it as a line...
Fresh from a badly-needed leadership victory Tuesday, British Prime Minister John Major shook up his Cabinet to present a new and -- he hopes -- more appealing face to disenchanted voters. "It's really yet another attempt of his to draw a line in the sand, and a way for the Conservatives to prepare for the 1997 election," says TIME'sBarry Hillenbrand. Surprisingly, he reports, Major gave little to the right-wing antagonists and foes of European economic integration who prompted him to call for Tuesday's risky vote in the first place. Only one far-right rival, Michael Portillo...
...interviewed for this story) has exhibited a fascination with guns and guerrilla warfare, an intense dislike of authority, a grandiose vision of himself with an attraction to the idea of martyrdom, and, as one ally puts it, the ability to "talk until most people have turned to sand." If anything, Koernke appears to have become increasingly himself. That mix of characteristics did not make him popular early on. But eventually he located an America, or part of an America, that prized them and, within a few short years, turned him from a near outcast into a leader...
...context of a multitude of issues--HMO'sand managed care, the New Pathway curriculum atHMS, specialization versus primary care--Langonerepeatedly argues that many of the students becomedehumanized, over-specialized and one-dimensionalas a result of the fierce pre-med race. As aresult, they end up knowing little about realdoctoring and interacting properly with patients...