Word: staid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Aleksa Palladino), according to convention hereafter referred to as "Manny" and "Lo," survive through shoplifting, house-breaking-and-sleeping-in, and the liberal use of their deceased mother's station wagon. When Lo gets undeniably pregnant, the spunky pair adds a bigger crime to their misdemeanors and kidnap a staid ex-nurse (Mary Kay Place) incongruously behind the counter at one of those sickeningly precious baby supplies stores. They then hole up at an abandoned country house. Barring some frenzied running around at the end, most of the film takes place there amidst woodsy surroundings (where, inexplicably, a seemingly tropical...
...proposed Aetna Inc. will undoubtedly play a leading role in determining which perception prevails. For staid and paternalistic Aetna, a longstanding leader in traditional indemnity plans (you pick the doctors; they pick up the bills), the consolidation catapults the 143-year-old company smack into the center of the brave new world of managed care, where consumers must choose from a company-approved network of doctors, who agree to fixed charges for most services. Or consumers can join health-maintenance organizations, which directly employ doctors and nurses. "We are going into the managed-care business because that's what people...
...quarters on the second floor of the White House, within earshot of just about everything that happened. They were career officers, not political appointees, all holdovers from the Bush Administration. Hillary, in particular, had the sense that some of them didn't like her and Bill, preferring the more staid Bushes. Hillary told Vince she wanted their own people installed in the White House detail...
Republican presidential primaries are normally royalist affairs, staid rituals of continuity posing briefly as wild free-for-alls. While Democrats can often be counted on to stage long catfights that rip apart the party so deeply that reassembly by November is impossible, Republicans prefer one-act passion plays in primogeniture. From watching Democrats, the G.O.P. has learned the cost of indulging in party soul searching for more than a few weeks...
Jennifer A. Fraulo '96 is perfectly right that Cambridge would be a more vibrant community if it retained the diversity of young and old, rich and poor, bohemian and staid middle class, rather than be a homogeneous suburb of the wealthy. (Letter to the Editor...