Word: seldomly
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...misdemeanor, which rarely landed the attacker in court, much less in jail. That distinction, which still exists in most states, does not reflect the danger involved: a study by the Boston Bar Association found that the domestic attacks were at least as dangerous as 90% of felony assaults. "Police seldom arrest, even when there are injuries serious enough to require hospitalization of the victim," declared the Florida Supreme Court in a 1990 gender-bias study, which also noted the tendency of prosecutors to drop domestic-violence cases...
MORE THAN 20,000 AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DIAGnosed each year with ovarian cancer, many with the disease in an advanced stage, and chemotherapy seldom helps prolong their life. There is one effective treatment: taxol, a substance found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree. Taxol doesn't cure the cancer but does slow its progress for months in up to 30% of patients. Now it has received the blessing of both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Canadian authorities as an approved treatment for ovarian cancer. It is also being investigated for possible effectiveness in combatting breast...
...meeting than needed to accomplish his purpose. Colleagues praise him for other lawyerly virtues as well: sound judgment, discretion, the ability to absorb technical minutiae fast without losing sight of the big picture, a willingness, says a friend, "to work his ass off." Berger is kind to secretaries, seldom crabby and uses a quizzical, ironic humor to defuse stress. He loves the front line of politics; he helped drill Clinton before the presidential debates and often accompanied him on the campaign plane. "If I were in real trouble and allowed one call," says Lake, "Sandy...
...words that friends invariably use when describing this rare bird are Wasp and patrician -- Matthiessen's voice resounds with the kind of arrowhead sternness they hardly seem to make anymore (and his sister was the college roommate of George Bush's sister). Tomato has seldom had a longer a, and visitors are handled with a reserve at once concealed and intensified by easy courtesy. Yet the other thing always said about Matthiessen is that he's persistently tried to escape the comfort of his upbringing and put himself in wild places where privilege has no meaning...
Given the state of network news these days, viewers seldom encounter such probing, useful journalism. In a compellingly documented broadcast, a Dateline: NBC investigative reporter went undercover to reveal that despite company denials, the outwardly patriotic Wal-Mart retail chain used child labor in Bangladesh sweatshops to manufacture clothing sold under its MADE IN THE U.S.A. label. Even with two months' rehearsal time, Wal-Mart president David Glass looked like a deer caught in the headlights. Wal-Mart supporters called the report "one-sided...