Word: tiniest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still intelligently abustle: fast dissolves of an opera audience, a quiet riot of gold when the blond countess receives yellow roses from Newland, a slow-motion vignette of working men -- the people whose labor subsidizes the idle class. Throughout, he shows he can be as attentive to the tiniest twinges of the heart as he has been to the gunfire of taxi drivers and goodfellas. Here, instead of shouting, people speak softly and in code. The movie is 135 thrilling minutes waiting for someone to come to the point. And that is the point: a man is at risk...
...boldest, most expensive social initiative since the New Deal, bigger even than F.D.R.'s institution of Social Security half a century ago. It would intimately affect the health and livelihood of every American, while shifting billions of dollars in costs and savings among the country's biggest industries and tiniest shops. And despite occasional press leaks, the First Lady, assigned by the President to oversee health reform, jealously guarded the full text of the proposal...
When a mother has Rh-negative blood and her fetus has Rh-positive (thanks to the father), the baby can actually be allergic to the mother, with health problems ranging from anemia to death. But a test that uses biotechnology to detect key proteins in the tiniest samples of blood can now determine the child's Rh status in the first trimester rather than the third, and allow for the earliest possible treatment...
...literally direct it: "A gust of wind. A dog barks." And finally he is the writer, changing history by anticipating it. But this Chinese-puzzle-box movie has a deeper message inside. It says that most folks' lives are like Phil's on Groundhog Day: a repetition, with the tiniest variations, of ritual pleasures and annoyances. Routine is the metronome marking most of our time on earth. Phil's gift is to see the routine and seize...
...heart of the controversy lies the so-called Delaney Clause, approved by Congress when Eisenhower was President and named for its chief sponsor, Representative James Delaney of New York. This landmark law prohibits even the tiniest trace of potentially cancer-causing additives in juices, jellies, flour, baked goods and thousands of other processed foods. Most pesticide laws -- for example, the ones that cover fresh foods -- strike a balance between risk and benefit, allowing for tiny amounts of man-made chemicals if they help farmers protect crops. Not Delaney. Any amount of a potential carcinogen in processed food is grounds...