Word: bays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful motivation to get well, pain can fade into the background. Dr. Jon Levine, of U.C.S.F., describes a woman whose hands and knees are swollen with arthritis but who continues to manage a San Francisco clothing store and has even run in the city's 7.6-mile "Bay-to-Breakers" road race. "I feel sure that she is experiencing the physiological impulses of pain," says Levine. "When you push her, she'll admit that there are certain things she tends not to do; for instance, she can't lift big bundles of clothing any more...
...directly into the spine via surgically implanted catheters. An implantable morphine pump that provides a continuous infusion of the drug is being tested for use by cancer patients. Unfortunately, patients may develop tolerance to narcotics, and their doctors often fail to provide high enough doses to keep pain at bay...
...down. A "B" student in my earlier years, I suddenly began to sprout "A's" on my blue books. My only outside job was chauffeuring Harvard's then-new president, James Bryant Conant '14, and his family--which entailed meeting many corporate executives at Back Bay Station en route to meetings of the Overseers. They all chatted amiably with their student chauffeur but the only advice I remember was from Charles Townsend Copeland when I drove him to what must have been one of his very last "Christmas readings...
...charge that her ties with Big Business, and particularly real estate developers, are unsettlingly close. Under her administration, claim the critics, rampant high-rise construction has destroyed the character of the city's downtown, darkening its streets and driving out small business. Says Bruce Brugmann, publisher of the Bay Guardian, a local newsweekly: "With Feinstein it's been allegro furioso all the way. She's helping wreck the city she was born in." The mayor counters that her 1983 plan for downtown proposes "the most restrictive zoning of any high-rise business center in the nation...
...furloughed from the hospital to watch Swale in person. Looking small and wan, dappled old Woody said with the brave gleam of all winning trainers, "I thought he was a cinch, anyway." A son of 1977 Triple Crown Champion Seattle Slew, Swale favors that great dark bay...