Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make junior faculty senior tutors will thin out the sense of scholarly community in our already fragmented department," he says...
...which claims a backlog of $870 million in unmet needs for equipment and $800 million in deferred maintenance and repairs, will lay off 5,000 to 10,000 employees next year, and not all of them will be bureaucrats. As it is, the care-giving staff is stretched so thin on some wards that quadriplegics complain of spending days in bed for lack of anyone to help them up. Gerald Barba, 39, a peacetime Navy veteran who broke his neck in a swimming accident, praises the dedication of the staff at the VA Hospital in the Bronx, New York...
After a boisterous campaign that stirred passions in Canadians from all provinces, Quebec chose to remain part of Canada, voting 50.6% against secession and 49.4% for it in a special plebiscite. The razor-thin margin consisted of just 52,448 votes out of almost 5 million cast; the 93.4% turnout was a record. One day later, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, announced that he would resign before year's end. But charismatic Quebec politician Lucien Bouchard insisted that the cause of secession is not dead: "The next time will be the right...
...addition, since Harvard departments tend to be small, "it means that we always need to be spread thin. We tend to go for generalists...
...first place. It is unlikely that with $182 billion less in federal Medicaid money over seven years the states will embrace high-quality care. The market solution would be to replace that nurse's aide at $10 an hour with an unskilled worker at $5 and to substitute thin soup and macaroni for meat and vegetables...