Word: action
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, NIOC's Tehran headquarters are in disarray. Many decisions are hanging fire. Two competing workers' councils constantly battle, challenge each other's decisions and block action...
Again, a distinction must be made between quiet impulse and extreme action: the drive to hurt need not be obeyed...
...production was in the capable hands of the company's director, Sarah Caldwell. She staged the action scenes vividly, with swirling movement, loud speakers, sirens and flashing lights and kept the quiet moments simple and suit ably spacious in their loneliness. The cast - including Richard Fredricks as Lev, Jake Gardner as Yuri and Curtis Rayam as Olympion - sang with conviction. Two in particular matched the aplomb of Caldwell's conducting: Arlene Saunders, in lustrous voice as Nadia, and Cynthia Clarey, warmly sympathetic as a nurse who serves as a peacemaker...
Some doctors are afraid that easy access by patients to their records may bring a rash of malpractice suits, but the American Medical Association discounts such fears. Strongly supporting congressional action, many consumer groups and pro fessional organizations like the American Medical Record Association are convinced that without a new law medical privacy stands in mortal jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records...
Americans displayed many similar signs of indifference and disunity on the eve of World War II. Pearl Harbor galvanized the nation at last into comparative unity and necessary action. In fact, World War II may have been the last epoch when Americans acted in moral harmony with one an other. An overriding common necessity imposed sacrifices - rationing at home, service and possible death abroad - upon a people more or less unified in their perception of the evil to be conquered...