Word: specializing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some in the Republicans' own camp, principally Senator John McCain and Representative Christopher Shays. These advocates of reform have long tried to shut the loophole through which as much as half a billion dollars in soft money could flow this year, most of it from Big Business and other special interests eager not to be forgotten when key legislation comes up for a vote. This fall they'll try again, and their chances for success are improving...
...Puerto Rican community getting excited about this or rushing out to support Hillary?s campaign? Hardly," says Branegan. Armed struggle for independence isn?t exactly a mainstay of New York Puerto Rican politics. "These guys were released because of years of pressure from human rights groups," says Branegan. So special interest groups who want to make cases such as the release of Jonathan Pollard, jailed for spying for Israel, an issue in the First Lady?s campaign may end up shooting themselves in the foot. "If anything," says Branegan, "the First Lady?s candidacy will make President Clinton even more...
...personal guess," says Djorgovski. "is that we're dealing with a very special, sub-sub-sub-category of quasar. There may be only one of them." Or, he muses, his team may be looking at a quasar through a "very special" line of sight, a line that passes through a strange cloud of gas that accounts for its curious absorptions. But, he stresses, "I wouldn't stake any money on either of these possibilities...
...recent day the buttery smell of fresh popcorn wafted through the vestibule. On the door of its suites, framed "memory boxes" display mementos of the lives of the people who live behind those doors--family photos, military dog tags and other souvenirs of long lives. In the special section for residents with Alzheimer's, one area is stocked with old tool kits, wedding gowns and a crib with several dolls, haunting but therapeutic props meant to engage the minds of people who have returned in fantasy to younger days when they worked and raised families. "We want to create pleasant...
...into the problem, partly by way of its work to update the 1965 Older Americans Act, which provides penalties for scams on the elderly. "New services that meet the needs of our growing senior population are necessary and exciting," says Louisiana Senator John Breaux, ranking Democrat on the Senate Special Committee on Aging. "But the facilities are market driven and are susceptible to a bottom-line mentality that can lead to consumer fraud and abuse...