Word: tad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...anywhere, a certain amount of logrolling and favoritism among the peer groups that review applications, and a peevish sense of entitlement among many applicants on the basis of class or race or gender. But the NEA's peer-group system has at least the merit of being a tad more democratic and informed than the fiats of a minister...
...prudes, wimps and the squeamish" mentioned in Joseph Enis' loving homage to that aural atrocity known as heavy metal (May 11), I have little to say in self-defense except that I seem to know a tad more about his favorite music than he seems to know about mine. For example...
...support: medicine is an uncertain science. When Cole's wife Jackie suffered a massive brain hemorrhage four years ago, the blood vessels in her brain ruptured, and she fell into a coma. "The vast majority of patients who have this kind of stroke die within a few hours," Dr. Tad Pula, the head of Maryland General Hospital's division of neurology, told Cole. But Jackie did not die right away; after several crises she stabilized into a vegetative state, which doctors said could last indefinitely. After talking with his children, Cole went to court to remove the respirator. But Baltimore...
...Jeremy Fraiberg (HARVARD) d. Trip Navaro, (Tufts), 15-2, 15-6, 15-11; 2. Mark Baker (HARVARD) d. Josh Lebowitz (Tufts), 15-8, 15-11, 15-4; 3. Jon Bernheimer (HARVARD) d. James Porter (Tufts), 15-7, 15-6, 15-3; 4. Josh Horwitz (HARVARD) d. Tad Hogan (Tufts), 15-5, 15-9, 15-7; 5. Neal Tew (HARVARD) d. Steve Filosa (Tufts), 15-9, 15-4, 15-3; 6. Bobby Greenhill (HARVARD) d. Ed Crowley (Tufts), 15-5, 18-17, 15-3; 7. Sam Halpert (HARVARD) d. Marco Caicedo (Tufts), 15-7, 15-6, 15-11; 8. Jon Pratt...
...Bush Administration soon adopted a more seemly tone -- restrained, conciliatory, even a tad remorseful about the earlier chest pounding. Legal experts warned that official American name calling might jeopardize the prosecution's case against Manuel Noriega. But there was another reason for George Bush's eagerness to put away the big stick and start talking softly again. He believes in that AT&T advertising slogan, "Reach out and touch someone" -- not with the 82nd Airborne but with a telephone call. Starting in the early hours of Operation Just Cause, he talked to more than a dozen foreign leaders, many...