Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brainy nerd named Herbert Stempel (wonderfully played by John Turturro), who was a steady winner on Twenty- One. The trouble was that white-bread America couldn't identify with him. Enter Van Doren (played a little too stiffly by Ralph Fiennes), trying to pick up a few dollars to supplement his instructor's pay at Columbia University. He was a godsend. Not just any old Wasp, but the scion of arguably the nation's most distinguished literary family. His father was Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer- prizewinning poet and scholar; his mother was a novelist; his uncle, a famous historian...
...Many doctors who staff emergency rooms were never taught to handle conditions such as heart attacks and severe bleeding, a report says. Problems include educational lapses (fewer than 20% of medical schools require emergency-medicine courses) and moonlighting (many residents supplement their incomes with ER work but lack the necessary skills...
...People made similar remarks when we allowed the ACT as a supplement to the SATs," Fitzsimmons says. "If we wanted to increase the numbers, we could just send a search letter out to more people...
...baby is getting enough to eat? The proof, say experts, is in the diaper. In the first few weeks of life, a nursing baby normally wets at least six diapers a day and has very frequent bowel movements. For mothers who cannot produce enough milk, the solution is easy: supplement the baby's diet with infant formula...
Because there have been so few faculty nominations in recent years, the council has had to supplement the nominations with its own picks to complete the slate of candidates...