Word: address
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard researchers also found that 74 percent of the patients they surveyed preferred to call doctors by their titles and surnames whereas only 18 percent wanted physicians to address them by their surnames. "Doctors should be more aware that they may be offending some patients when calling them by their last names," Dunn said...
...Press Secretary James Brady, shot down by would-be Presidential Assassin John Hinckley, still needs considerable medical care, and his wife calls the costs for such care a "national problem crying for a solution." In the State of the Union message last February, the President formally asked Bowen "to address the problems of affordable insurance for those whose life savings would otherwise be threatened when catastrophic illness strikes...
...nothing," said one participant in last week's discussion. "But no federal program started in this century has ever had accurate predictions about its ultimate size and cost." At the end, the President once again postponed a decision, which may be disclosed only in his State of the Union address...
...likely to debate in early 1987, could include export subsidies, import quotas or other protectionist steps that the Administration generally opposes. To pre-empt any protectionist bill, the Administration said in December that Reagan would announce his own competitiveness-boosting plan in January's State of the Union address. The Reagan proposal would emphasize increased productivity at home, probably through greater emphasis on worker training and research and development...
...piety is very far from passivity. In 1984, returning to Mount St. Vincent College to collect an honorary degree, the mild, once bookish college girl surprised her former classmates with a forceful address. "Faith," she told them, "is not simply a patience which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit which bears things -- with resignation, yes, but above all, with blazing serene hope...