Word: brashly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
American medicine has been able to compound all manner of miracles, ranging from the creation of powerful antibiotics that can dispatch a brash bacillus to the introduction of death-defying surgical procedures. Yet there is one illness that has baffled U.S. doctors: how to contain sharply rising medical costs, which have climbed from $42 billion to nearly $140 billion (almost twice the inflation rate) in a decade and now total more than the country spends on national defense. One reason for the soaring costs is more sophisticated care, but another is the "third party" problem -more than 90% of hospital...
...this country," says Alex Haley, "we are young, brash and technologically oriented. We are all trying to build machines so that we can push a button and get things done a millisecond faster. But as a consequence, we are drawing away from one of the most priceless things we have?where we came from and how we got to be where we are. The young are drawing away from older people...
...direction it is heading in is well exemplified by the Washington Post. Ask A.M. Rosenthal, the Times's executive editor, to name the best American papers and he will tell you. "The Times-space-the Washington Post -space-and then the others." The Post's executive editor, brash Ben Bradlee, agrees, although he thinks his own paper in some ways better. Bradlee envies the Times its careful editing, its good desk work, its "cruising speed." But he also finds the Times "too constipated...
...releases don't lie. "Here to Stay," a Blue Note re-issue featuring Freddie Hubbard, goes far to proving that the old Hubbard, the just-breaking-in-brash-young Hubbard, could do things that the more esteemed Hubbard could not even understand now. This album gives you the best of Hubbard and some terrific tenor sax by Jimmy Heath and Wayne Shorter. Cedar Walton shows why he is still one of the most under-rated pianists in his smooth accompaniement. The album is fortunate to have "Hub Cap", a long unavailable cut featuring Hubbard, Heath, and Philly Joe Jones, among...
Departing from her usual practice of zinging brash, hostile questions at world leaders, Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci has turned philosopher-novelist. Her new book, Letter to a Child Never Born, to be published in English next month by Simon & Schuster, is the monologue of a nameless, husbandless professional delivered to her unborn child. The baby dies in the womb, but not before its mother probes her own motives for childbearing and the infant's right to be born. "This is a story about a doubt, the biggest of all-whether or not to bring a human being into...