Word: staying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that his likely candidacy for treasurer and the ballot campaign naturally go together, particularly if Crane seeks another term. "I can very easily say that the system is wrong for allowing the treasurer to stay in that long," Malone said...
WHILE my friend Julia watched helplessly from a nearby canoe, I felt the swift current pulling me towards the rapids. "Keep your feet up! Stay upstream of the canoe!" I thought furiously. "Breathe! Breathe! Breathe...
...costs of practice have driven out hordes of doctors altogether. According to a 1987 survey by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1 out of 8 U.S. obstetricians has left the field because of the malpractice threat. Those who manage to stay in business may feel forced to practice a kind of medicine that assumes every patient is a prospective litigant. Such defensive tactics are antithetical to compassionate care: the doctor ends up being afraid of someone he or she wants to help, cautious about trying attractive new treatments and emotionally aloof from someone in need of emotional support...
...relatively little fear about the economy. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 6 out of 10 adults described current conditions as fairly good or very good, down only a trifle compared with January. Looking ahead to the next twelve months, 72% expected conditions to stay the same or improve, while just 24% of those polled saw the economy getting worse. Asked about their spending plans in the coming year, 65% said they thought it would be a good time to buy a major household item -- a refrigerator, for example, or a television...
...intifadeh, | congregating on street corners instead of in classrooms. "My first challenge will be trying to make my students act and behave like students and not like rebels," says Ramadan, a teacher in Hebron, just 20 miles from Jerusalem. To help promote order, the Israeli army has promised to stay clear of school grounds. But few Palestinians trust the military to keep its word; fewer still expect the reopening of West Bank schools to occur without incident. Says a twelfth-grader named Salem: "How can I forget my schoolmates who were shot dead, injured and arrested by the Israeli army...