Word: sane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, sexual assault victims must travelBeth Israel Deaconess in Boston to receivetreatment from a qualified Sexual Assault NurseExaminer (SANE). SANE nurses, Gould says, usuallyoperate out of a hospital that sees at least 100rapes a year...
...Salt Lake, but in Los Angeles. The 1976 Montreal Games had dutifully lost millions of dollars, and the 1980 Moscow Games, boycotted by the U.S., didn't make a ruble. The Winter Games, always staged in nice little Currier & Ives villages, had seldom turned a profit. Therefore, naturally, no sane city wanted to play host to the Games. Then, in 1984, Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles organizing committee put on a splashy, TV-friendly, penny-squeezing Olympics that netted $220 million. Suddenly suitors were turning handsprings before the I.O.C., each performing citius, altius, fortius than the last. Two cities...
There is, for example, a whole generation of Soviet officials who put perfectly sane dissidents into psychiatric prisons and presided over that hell called the gulag. Those officials are not just running around the world. Some of them are still running Russia...
...thesis becomes, how you would like to continue in your state of denial for at least a little while longer, remaining peacefully oblivious to the long road of writing ahead. This is not a paper you crank out the night before, not, at least, if you want to stay sane...
...young secretary got off a train with two dead bodies stuffed in her luggage, triggering the sensational 1930s trial that dubbed her the "trunk murderess"; in Phoenix, Ariz. A sanity hearing spared her the death penalty and sent her packing to an Arizona hospital for three decades. Later judged sane, she went to prison, and was released...