Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also discussed, in general, the various responsibilities that the College has been asking the houses to shoulder, which run the gamut from security to academics. It was in this larger context that I remarked that, while the Bok Center runs training sessions for teaching fellows and tutors, not all of the resident tutors in all of the houses are trained for all of the tasks that they may or may not be asked to carry...
...deliver on his pledge within the first 100 days. As he prepares to take office, the problems with America's health-system have reached a critical condition. Medical costs have begun to accelerate at an even faster pace than was expected. More and more employers, unable or unwilling to shoulder the financial burden any longer, are canceling or slashing benefit plans. Millions more Americans are learning that they simply can no longer afford basic medical care...
...YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently couldn't take it anymore. After examining the literature, literally, on Tim, Dr. Lewis has come up with a professional diagnosis: distal renal tubular acidosis. According to A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim lives to enjoy Christmases Yet to Come, thanks to a reformed Scrooge and his trio of conscience-raising phantoms...
...safe." Bringing peace to Somalia's interior, however, may take some doing. In Baidoa, Purvis saw a young Somali no more than eight years old waltz up to a relief worker who was carrying a bag of cheese-flavored chips. "The kid had an AK-47 draped over his shoulder, its muzzle almost dragging in the dust," says Purvis. While Purvis watched, the pint-size gunman reached up and snatched the bag of chips. A Somali man standing nearby yelled at him, but the child, who was much better armed and knew it, just stared and walked away...
...small parade of visitors, beaconed by the lights on shoulder-held TV cameras, sweeps in like a surprise midnight political parade. But it is silent -- eerie and embarrassed. The prisoners rouse themselves and stare from the shadows with big, wondering eyes. They seem young, with fierce, thick, uncombed hair and raw, cold-roughened faces...