Word: silent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...December issue ("Students Should Shut Up", column, Dec, 12, 1995), you ran a column which said that students should remain silent on Harvard administrative matters, because 1)Harvard students are not mature enough to make such decisions and 2)Harvard is not a democracy...
...much like a regular car. The acceleration is good, and it handles the same. But it's a bit of a stretch to say, as GM claims, that it's quieter than a regular car. At startup and slow speeds, that's certainly true. The electric motor is almost silent. But at normal driving speeds, most of the noise you hear in a car comes from the road and wind, so it sounds pretty much the same...
...contrasts with Gingrich are fantastic. Rayburn was absolutely silent. He gave very few speeches. If he really wanted to say something, he would step down from the Speaker's platform and go into the well of the House. And he only did this a handful of times. When he did it, he would say, "Do this for me." And they would do it for him. So far, Gingrich has great control over his party, but let's see what happens now that things are turning against...
Today, however, Huggins' drill is silent. He closed his clinic in September to devote his energy to writing another book, he says. But there may have been other, more pressing reasons. Three weeks ago, a civil jury found Huggins and an associate liable in a negligence suit brought by a woman who came in to have her fillings removed and ended up having five teeth extracted. Another lawsuit alleges that the Huggins Center hastened the death of an elderly couple; the wife stopped going to her oncologist for cancer treatments after going to the center. At a hearing that began...
...story of Elisa's death hit the news last week, New Yorkers and people across the country remembered the Kitty Genovese murder in 1964, and took to task all the neighbors who had known too much and said nothing. But, it turned out, many others had not been silent: Elisa's slow, tortured demise had been reported repeatedly. Over the six years of her life, city authorities had been notified at least eight times. And so outrage focused on the child-welfare system. How did it happen, the public wondered angrily, that Elisa's case was known to the system...