Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While many details had been published earlier, those stories failed to convey the proposal's sheer size, audacity and intrusiveness into personal and business decisions. The plan, which President Clinton is scheduled to announce next Wednesday night, would push Americans away from private doctors and into less expensive group medical practices such as health-maintenance organizations. It would hold down the income of many doctors, hospitals, insurers and drug manufacturers through stringent federal cost controls. It would dramatically cut health-care costs for many large, high-wage companies such as automakers. But those costs would increase for many...
...middle of the Pacific, another rocket was launched on Kwajalein Island. It contained an infrared sensor powerful enough to detect heat from a human body 1,000 miles away. Closing at 15,000 m.p.h., the rocket locked onto the ICBM, intercepting it in midflight and destroying it by sheer physical impact. So devastating was the hit that the remaining shards of the ICBM's warhead measured less than an inch across...
...rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E's are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered form the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect...
Brock's book is not to be automatically dismissed. Although many of his sources are anonymous, the sheer volume of interviews and intensive examination of the minutiae of the case make for a persuasive argument...
...sheer persistence (and sleaziness), no reporter could touch Gary Wynn of "Inside Edition." First, he tried to make a deal...