Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conceding to Wolf's gripes about evening construction noise, CWT developer Dan Calano has changed his plan to include only ten nights of construction. Also, CWT will provide use of its proposed garage to the public at night, as well as subsidizing T passes for employees in its buildings...
Since the early 1980s, companies and the Government have worked to bring medical costs under control. At first, efforts focused on hospital use, the single largest category of medical expense. (Average 1987 cost for a hospital stay: $697 a day.) Health-care analysts argued that the cost of many operations could be reduced significantly if, for example, patients checked in ; the day of surgery instead of one or two days in advance...
Technically, Washington pays no "rent" for its foreign military bases, since they are assumed to be used for the defense of the local country as well as the U.S. But the costs linked directly to their operation, which ran to only about $400 million in 1960, are expected to hit $6 billion by 1990 -- not to mention the billions more in aid payments to host governments. Such spiraling prices are certain to fuel a growing U.S. debate over whether foreign bases are the best use of defense dollars...
...able to throw away all her crutches -- booze, religion, romantic fantasies -- and totter off into Celtic twilight under her own renewed power. Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top, The Great Gatsby) seems to think these mingy cliches speak volumes. With his smugly self-effacing camera style, he could use, as the Irish say, a "wee jar" to warm him up. His movie needs a big jar to warm up the viewer...
Should doctors use organs and tissue from brain- absent newborns and aborted fetuses to treat otherwise incurable diseases...