Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that finance is the smallest council committee. "We do ten times the amount of work, so sometimes things slip through," Braswell said...
...least half the year. Each day becomes precious. "It doesn't make me feel any different, turning 75, than when I turned 45," he muses. "But when I see pictures of my 19 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren, I know some time has passed. I let days like that slip by and try to forget it. I'm not looking backward. I'm looking to the future...
Joseph H. Kaplan, assistant director of the Election Commission, said, "We feel we've made the best effort possible." Kaplan acknowledged, however, that "in any large system a few are bound to slip through the cracks...
...queen." Stern, on the other hand, is "a slave driver." To crash-edit his book last summer, Regan spent weeks living in the guesthouse of his Long Island home. "It was pressure-cooker intense, very creative and very interesting. He is an extremely driven man. I needed a permission slip to go to the bathroom. He is a maniac, this...
Opponents of a market health care system claim that if the number of doctors were to increase because of a relaxation of government regulations, the quality of doctors and the care they provided would suffer. But certification does not necessarily equal quality. A slight slip of the scalpel can occur even to a board-certified physician. Likewise, a degree from a newer medical school does not preclude high performance...