Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Winsick's doctors at the Long Beach, California, VA hospital discovered a benign tumor growing in his brain five years ago but decided he could not survive surgery to remove it because of a heart condition, which had required a quadruple by-pass operation. Fortunately, there was a life-saving alternative: he could undergo "gamma knife" radiation. The VA hospital didn't offer that particular treatment, but the nearby private Hospital of the Good Samaritan did. Winsick's VA doctors set out to arrange VA funding for Winsick's treatment there...
...reform fatigue leads Western countries to despair for the U.N., a number of critics prescribe benign neglect for a creature swollen with rhetoric, unread paperwork and merely stray achievements on the ground. Many agencies are financed in large part by voluntary funds; governments could favor worthwhile functions and let the rest wither away. Parsons' verdict: "Well, let it become irrelevant if it won't reform itself. Don't let's waste too much time and the energy of clever...
...most benign solution would be to somehow prevent smoke from entering the ventilation system. Two ideas come to mind. First of all, the house could hire experts to ascertain if there are certain rooms in Gilbert (or perhaps in all four towers) where smoke will not enter the ventilation system. These rooms could be designated for smoking...
...because he deals with the movie business from a position of strength--he writes things it needs--Leonard omits the contempt with which novelists traditionally drench their Hollywood horror stories. Leonard simply drops a real killer in among the rubber sharks, then sits back watchfully, his only comment a benign (or, at worst, sardonic) chuckle as his hero quietly chews them...
...officials to participate. That may eventually shed light on who is responsible. But what cannot be explained, or fathomed, is how anyone can shoot down something as harmless as a helium balloon. "This is so senseless," said Ruth Ludwig of the Balloon Federation of America. "It's the most benign thing people can do, floating around...