Word: veined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar vein, Chalon Emmons of Mather House said, "It is a nice honor. I am happy with it and my father left a nice message on my machine...
...images, feeds the mass mind's need for simple ideas. It is also savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character on us. Instead, she asks us to search, as she must have had to, for the hard, pure, exemplary and not easily endearing...
...ceiling on the amount a hospital can increase its budget in a year--have forced hospitals to juggle their budgets, often cutting important programs. Because of the stringent state caps, many local hospitals have done away with their "I.V. teams" or technicians responsible for putting needles and catheters into veins. Without I.V. teams, patients must let interns fresh out of medical school take their chances at hitting a vein...
...misspelled as Aaron. Possible conclusion: Elvis Aron Presley is not buried there. The book comes with a tape of a man who sounds like Elvis and offers Delphic hints of his postmortem life and times. If Brewer-Giorgio fails to convince skeptics, she has profitably tapped a rich vein of quasi-religious longing. Millions may sneer along with Doonesbury and David Letterman at news of Presley's sanctified status, but many believe it. A star may have died, but something is being born. Maybe the Church of Elvis...
...image of the farmer: his supposed independence and self-sufficiency, taps a sympathetic vein among the urban public. They see farmers as the last bastion of the frontier spirit and American individualism. As one Bush strategist put it, the farmer is the "last vestige of American heroism, out there alone with God and the elements...