Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when it published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year-old's descent into the world of heroin addiction and prostitution...
...that such economies allowed many HMOs to provide prescription drug coverage. But the latest move by the industry throws many of these assumptions up in the air. Moreover, the development comes at a time when a growing number of patients have started to complain about HMO policies that smack of practicing medicine on the cheap. ?This has put the President in the position of backing a patient bill of rights against HMOs while he also presses them to take care of the elderly,? says Dickerson. The result is that HMOs have decided to fight back, leaving many seniors with...
Something similar happened when I started duping music CDs. I made a copy of Art Pepper's Smack Up, but it didn't work in my 18-month-old portable CD player. The solution was a CD-R disc, which can hold up to 74 minutes of audio and worked just fine on my portable player, my PC and my Mac. You'll have to go to the Net to find conversion software that allows you to burn MP3s onto CDs and play them in your Discman, however. None was included. Why? Why? Why? I never got a good answer...
...into what NASA scientists think might be a huge ice field and hope the impact sends up an icy spray big enough to be spotted--and measured--by the Hubble and ground-based telescopes. Controllers need to fly it into the right crater at just the right angle, and smack bang into the middle of the ice field. Says University of Texas aerospace engineer David Goldstein, who proposed the suicide splashdown: "It's going to be a close call...
...There is the smack of the eager about him," Frady says. "He is one of the few people whose direct ambition has been to become the moral leader of his time. This position came to King haphazardly, almost by happenstance, but Jesse has gone right...