Word: uniformization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scott, who had toiled at Pacific Theatres since high school, served as my guiding Virgil. He helped me secure my uniform. Who could resist the chance to be a fashion plate? The gray polyester pants seemed to cling to one for dear life, as if the wearer were their last chance for redemption. There was also the natty dark blue polyester vest, which made me look like a Christmas pudding, and the rakish gray clip-on tie made from some fabric whose origins I've yet to divine. Finally, honor of honors, I also had my very own name...
ANNA ZOSIMOVA, 72, works as a school administrator in St. Petersburg. "It seems strange to say it, but those were good years," she says of the war, showing pictures of herself in her air-defense uniform-a dark-haired young woman with strong shoulders developed digging trenches during the 880-day siege of Leningrad. "I was young, and when you are young, you are happy. I loved to dance, and we used to have parties as often as we could. We worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week, doing hard work, shovel work. But we had time...
...portrait of his father. "I'm not sure the people in the West can understand what went on here," he says. "The history of this painting reveals something of it. It is a typical tale of our times." The portrait depicts a stern yet handsome man in the uniform of a high-ranking communist official of the prewar years. He had been a Bolshevik revolutionary, says Zatonsky. But he differed politically with Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union's early years. He was arrested in 1937 and called "an enemy of the people." He was summarily shot, one of more...
...that would limit punitive damages in medical malpractice cases to two times the jury award, including the pain and suffering portion of the judgment. The provision, a more moderate approach than the version passed by the House, is part of a larger amendment also adopted today that establishes a uniform national standard of medical malpractice law. In a blow to the American Medical Association, the Senate rejected a proposal that would have capped pain and suffering awards at $500,000. The malpractice amendments are in turn part of a larger Senate debate on abill covering product liability laws. Majority Leader...
...found myself chanting "Jose, Jose," I realized that it is the uniform, not the player inside, to which I have a loyalty. After all, Jose Canseco was the embodiment of Satan when he crushed the Sox in the playoffs in 1988 and 1990. This explains how my grandmother, a diehard fan who listened to almost every Red Sox game in the Morgan Magic season, couldn't tell the difference between Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens...