Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University has gone to work to protect its own. For the short term, administrators are looking for a quick solution, such as a trust fund, to give hospitals ready cash to tide them over...
...fled again, this time to Arizona. Short on cash, he applied for a job at the Fountain Cafe in Mesa, using his real name and Social Security number. Working his charm, he befriended the owners, Mike and Gale Moran, who later told reporters they thought Tom was just wonderful. He always took out the trash, liked to wear the red apron, that sort of thing. They let him drive their car, and he was friends with their daughter. "We had no idea," they would later say, over and over...
...bumps like a car hitting a pothole. Far below, they can see the flash of their bombs. On board the plane, a hot plate lets them heat up hot dogs or chili--preferred over military rations. Reading helps kill boredom, and there's room for a sleeping bag for short "power naps" and a 50-gal. portable toilet...
...goal, commanders said, was to reach as many as 20,000 refugees stranded near the border and create a bridgehead that would allow the rebel army to set up bases inside Kosovo. But the bloody victory was a reminder that, Western hopes notwithstanding, the K.L.A. is still woefully short of experience...
When first-time filmmaker Keiko Ibi claimed her Oscar last month for this documentary short, she charmed audiences with her unvarnished manner. Clearly, she had a similar effect on her subjects--a group of now single senior citizens living on Manhattan's Lower East Side--who speak with touching candor here about love and loss in the years when middle age is a fond memory. Ibi never patronizes these men and women; she just allows them to wish--and be wistful...