Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...handsome woman tells him she is going to return to her last lover. Since she is on a first-name basis with the doctor, she replies: "Donny's in a coma. He had a bad acid experience." She sees nothing unusual in this. What do medical ethics or traditions weigh when measured against modishness...
Settling to a modest cadence of 34 and working long, smooth strokes, the varsity lights steamed to a 10.5-sec. victory. As Cominsky put it, "Navy just forgot to weigh anchor, I guess...
...cooling down the failed reactor at Three Mile Island, experts from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had to assess somberly the risks of every feasible step, weigh them against the dangers of waiting too long, and act only after satisfying themselves that they had a reasonably clear idea of what to do. The same spirit ought to govern the public and its leaders in the intense debate about the future of nuclear power that is now beginning...
...long tradition of purifying dirty money by honoring the former owner after his death. But there is no tradition of naming Harvard buildings for living corporations. ARCO is apparently the first brand name used for a Harvard institution. Yet the Kennedy School did not look into precedents or weigh the implications of such a policy departure. Since every announcement of a Forum event is also an advertisement for ARCO, the implications are far-reaching...
Since the 1930s, commercial insurance firms have reimbursed hospitals on a cost-plus basis--the more hospitals spend, the more they collect. By the '60s, slightly inflated costs caused hospital bills were to weigh heavily on families without sufficient insurance and liberal America introduced Medicaid and Medicare to ease the burden...