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Shortly afterward, a phone call was placed from Baku to London.
A WP front-pager by media reporter Howard Kurtz suggests that the story of the woman who died shortly after being told that her insurance company would only cover a bone marrow transplant if she had it in Chicago and not in Hawaii where she was--a managed-care horror story that has been referred to by both Bill and Hillary Clinton in recent weeks and has also been quoted by major media from ABC to Time--is of a piece with Ronald Reagan's Cadillac-driving "welfare queen."
Shortly before his death in 1973, after Darger moved out to a nursing home, his landlord opened up his room and discovered, amid piles of presumably artistic debris (hundreds of pairs of smashed eyeglasses, balls of string, old pairs of shoes, scores of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles), one 2,600-page autobiography, an 11-year weather log, 87 watercolors, 67 pencil drawings, and the tale of the Vivian Girls.
The reduction of tissue water content in response to low temperature is believed to be due to an impedance of water uptake by the roots [ 15 ] . Reduced root hydraulic conductance occurs shortly after plants are transferred from warm to cooler temperatures.
When he left the department shortly thereafter to run Bush's re-election campaign, he turned to the same executives for contributions.