Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tobias, it was his experience as a part-time entrepreneur at Harvard in the late 1960s. Joining in several college-run ventures, he rented refrigerators to dorm dwellers and helped write the popular Let's Go: The Student Guide to Europe. Says Tobias: "I learned a lot in a short time, but I decided that I have more fun writing about business than trying...
Last week, as 11,000 physicians, scientists and health officials gathered in Montreal for the fifth International Conference on AIDS, evidence was building that Mason could be right. While AIDS is still cutting lives short, early intervention with new drugs is lengthening the time between diagnosis and death and offering the hope that a full life for the disease's victims may some day be possible. Said New York City Health Commissioner Stephen Joseph in Montreal: "We are very close to turning the corner on this epidemic." But there is a price tag to this success. Medical bills...
...come-on is trivial over the long pull; it is designed to cloud your judgment. The true rate on this deal is the "nationally recognized interest index plus 1.5%" that Amex talks about. But a footnote reveals this to be an index of short-term, tax-free bonds, the lowest-yielding animals...
...OXFORD BOOK OF IRISH SHORT STORIES Edited by William Trevor...
Readers usually get their first impression of anthologies from high school or college English classes; the assigned texts are there to be studied, not enjoyed. But of course many collections can be read with pleasure, as this one engagingly demonstrates. William Trevor, the distinguished Irish novelist and short story writer, understands his compatriots' love of tale telling, the anecdotal impulse that flourishes among people who savor the spoken word. In his brief, informative introduction, he notes, "English fiction writers tend to state that their short stories are leavings from their novels. In Ireland I have heard it put the other...