Word: wrenching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is clearly the most violent cultural wrench for UCLA is its decision to train fewer specialists and more medical generalists. Late last year, an audience of UCLA specialists listened in shocked silence as Alan Fogelman, chairman of the School of Medicine, outlined a vision of the future: "A tertiary cardiology specialist will be waiting for the phone to ring, but it won't." While it still emphasizes training medical scientists and, in fact, has a new program to attract top-notch students who will commit themselves to research but not practice, UCLA will no longer train students to practice...
That didn't seem to throw too large of a wrench in Harvard's plan to send Chelius, Colligan and Winters out with a bang, for a win over Brown is as predictable as the sun rising in the morning...
...think he notices me very much. In fact, I'm starting to get jealous of my pre-med roommates because they get more advising from him! Short of trading in my passion for medieval literature for a four-color clicker, I don't know how to wrench his attention away from them. Should I sit him down one night and explain what `chivalry' really means? --Grinding my teeth in Grays...
...order to pull off the upset, Harvard will have to throw a wrench at the Allen-Matt Maloney Quaker backcourt. Maloney lit up Brown for 36 on February 4, and he and Allen form what some pundits have called the best two guard combination in the land...
...after nearly two-thirds of California voters passed the controversial anti-illegal immigration Proposition 187, a state judge threw a monkey wrench into the works. In San Francisco, Superior Court Judge Stuart Pollak issued a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement of 187's provision that bars illegal immigrants from public schools. The judge said 187 conflicts with a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring states to provide a public education to all residents. State Attorney General Dan Lungren vowed to fight the judge all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As-yet unchallenged: Prop 187 provisions...