Word: tossed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John threw himself into the work, interviewing experts and reading academic literature. Rather than finding a needy hospital to toss cash at, he discovered a mostly ignored problem, the inadequate education and dismal pay of frontline workers in mental health. They are working poor, without health insurance or hope of mobility, yet they care for people like Kennedy's aunt Rosemary, left deeply retarded by a lobotomy, as well as millions of others with disabilities. "What he understood," says Deborah Shanley, a Brooklyn College dean, "is that you're never going to have quality care if the people in this...
...with one another that we've misplaced the boundaries of propriety?" Perhaps, but they often came with fictions and stereotypes. For City's cool superwomen, a little cynicism can be empowering, as on an episode about an acquaintance's whirlwind wedding. A lesser sitcom would have played the bouquet toss for pathos, but Carrie & Co. let the flowers hit the carpet so as not to spill their champagne. Love is lovely, and sex can be fun. But hey--it's nothing to ruin a perfectly good evening dress over...
...film developed, finding same-day APS processing on a Sunday was a pain. Estimates ranged from overnight to three days, until I located a shop (Fromex) on Manhattan's Upper East Side. As for the prints, the Konica did better on close-ups, but overall it was a toss...
...when you pop Drop Dead into the time capsule, toss a reel of American Pie in with it. The guys from that movie and the girls from this one could tear one another apart...
Bored with last Christmas' hot toy? Don't just toss him. After all, Furby has as much computing power as an Apple II. Some fun ideas from a growing group of Furby hackers...