Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...caregivers? Catholic health services have historically reached out to underserved communities, aggressively promoting immunization programs and sometimes even building low-income housing, considered fundamental to good health. Ten percent of the nation's 4,800 hospitals (not including long-term and specialty-care centers) are Catholic, according to the American Hospital Association. They enjoy a nonprofit tax status, a financial advantage that some critics feel is unfair in the highly competitive health-care market...
Maybe you can argue that teens should not be shunted aside, but I am curious to know how they've come to be worshipped instead. Now that I am fully grown, I sense two prevailing cultural obsessions that ignore me once again. In American culture, there is potential and nostalgia; we are fascinated by prodigies first and has-beens second. Stuck in the middle are millions like me, living in those awkward years between promising potential and ironic demise. And the parameters of the present keep pushing in. To the tune of discarded disco anthems, our eyes pan slowly from...
...months, become as close as siblings under the maternal eye of their director. So with each new project he plans reunions, forming the tightest stock company in movies. Nearly a dozen actors have appeared in three or more of his films. One, Antonio Banderas, segued into American stardom. The others are all actresses, including Paredes, Carmen Maura and Victoria Abril. Almodovar is the man who loves women, who understands them, who writes women's roles that any actress would die or kill...
...house. When I step into a bank or an elevator and see a video camera overhead, I know I'm being recorded; the camera is usually right out there for me and everyone else to see. When I use my credit card to buy a meal, I know that American Express is recording that I've chalked up yet another overpriced expense-account lunch. And I know that AmEx knows...
...cold remedies treat only the symptoms and not the cause.) Then I started wondering if the folks at Gel Tech, the company that developed Zicam, knew what they were doing. Just four days after Gel Tech announced that its study of Zicam had been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal editor asked the company to withdraw it. Like an overeager novelist, Gel Tech had given away too much of the ending before the story appeared in print...