Word: adopters
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While most surgeons are willing to adopt minimally invasive, or noninvasive, procedures to control bleeding during an operation--such as laparoscopy, which requires tiny incisions, or ultrasound to destroy kidney stones--they usually stop short of transfusionless surgery. Some medical fundamentalists view it as a false promise with its own risks, but even doctors who acknowledge its value caution that it is not the panacea some physicians think it is. Certain situations--liver transplants, for example, and instances of trauma--will always require transfusions. Says Dr. Steven Gould, a surgeon at the University of Illinois at Chicago who advocates reduced...
...forced working parents to juggle a mid-week move-in. Some council debates have made me shudder at the unintentional intolerance which can result from the underrepresentation of different voices. This was epitomized by the strong conviction of some council members in the fall of 1995 that Harvard should adopt John Harvard as our official mascot. I know I am not alone when I say that the pilgrimish John Harvard figure represents everything that Harvard should not-chiefly, exclusivity. Harvard in John Harvard's day did not welcome women, students of color, Jews and Muslims, and there was certainly...
...cops think they are in a war, as McNamara said, perhaps they should adopt some of the military's doctrine. Even occupying armies must know the difference between friends and enemies. Cops who view communities in which they serve as "the bush" and its residents as the enemy are not likely to gather intelligence and arrest the most serious criminals. Minorities in inner cities have a serious stake in eradicating drugs and guns. However, they will not support police operations if they feel that most cops are not serious professionals but hostile, narrow-minded thrill seekers. JOSEPH BALANCIER JR. Marina...
...even remotely like our late beloved Princess Di. We should be horrified and amazed if any member of the official "firm" behaved as Di has done over the past five years. Nor would it be possible, without some constitutional problems, for the Prince of Wales or his sons to adopt good causes in quite the way that...
...call Martin J. Kashfleau, whose life sometimes seems dominated by what he refers to as "tax implications," has worried all summer about how he can take advantage of more than just the capital-gains provision of the tax-reduction package. So far, he's worked out a plan to adopt both his Aunt Hilda and the gardener as a way of getting the full tax credit for children, but he's terribly concerned about whether the way the law is written makes it more sensible for him to stay alive for another 10 years, until the estate-tax provisions take...