Word: skips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spend my days trapped, sometimes for eight or 14 hours at a stretch. My captors twist. They squeeze. My skin blisters under pitiless, chafing leather straps. I’m talking, of course, about high heels and the utter agony of dealing with them all day as I hop, skip, trip, and fall my way though a summer internship at a large financial institution smack in the middle of Corporate America. Middle of Corporate America though it may be, it’s still five blocks away from my subway station...
...university medical school, three hospitals and numerous other health facilities, has seen its annual number of malpractice claims and lawsuits drop almost 50%, from 260 in 2001 to 140 in 2004, and its average legal expense per case fall at virtually the same rate, to $35,000. Dr. Darrell (Skip) Campbell, a transplant surgeon and the chief of staff, says the new openness has the added advantage of allowing doctors to explore what happened. "The natural reaction when something goes awry," he says, "is to sweep it under the rug. [But then] you don't find out what the problems...
...iced coffee with my early breakfast, and a latte around 9 a.m. The size of the latte could be adjusted to the amount of sleep I had. A healthy night’s sleep could lead to a grande. Two long nights of sleep might even let me skip the second cup. But a night out—automatic venti...
...call from ESPN requesting that Vermont play a televised game against North Carolina led the Catamounts to skip out on Harvard...
...problem by the end of the day, but the 35-year-old mother of 5-year-old twins also has to pick up her children from day care. What happens next? Perhaps she makes a sheepish call to her husband, asking if he could skip out early while she puts out the fire at work. (Again?) Maybe she scrambles madly to find someone who can clean up the mess in time for her to sneak out at 4. (Did anyone see me?) Or perhaps, after another late night, she spends the car ride home wondering whether she should just quit...