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...François Mitterrand. Kohl's Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, hopped another jetliner for New York City, where he sat down for preliminary talks with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko at the United Nations. The aim of all of this brisk activity was nothing less, in Kohl's words, than "to demonstrate to the world the continuity and viability of the West German government...
Twice, a worried Charles Younger, 38, asked the staff in the Stanford University Hospital deli very room about his newborn's inactivity. He got only brisk reassurances. Finally, after 40 minutes, Younger pleaded: "How can I tell if my baby is alive?" Anna was alive, barely. She was suffering from oxygen deprivation, and the child today is a quadriplegic. But at least Anna will have few financial worries. The reason: an increasingly popular new way to settle malpractice lawsuits...
...quality of technical care people are receiving" says Amy Justice '81 a paid, full-time patient advocate for UHS. "There are times when attitude can get in the way of care." "Justice adds, without being specific, but she also says. "You can't fire people for being a little brisk...
...film's grace derives in part from Director Tim Hunter's brisk and unpretentious style, an ability to find the values in a scene efficiently, nail them down and move on unfussily. One would like to call it American classicism, if that phrase did not have such a forbidding ring to it. Mostly, however, the joy of the film arises from the acting of its central roles. As Mason, Jim Metzler conveys solidity without stolidity, commonsensicality without priggishness. It is the sort of self-effacing work that often, unfairly, gets overlooked in the movies. That is especially...
...this brisk, yet tranquil, Sunday fall afternoon, America will be rudely awakened when it flicks on the tube and discovers Merlin Olsen introducing the Toronto Argonauts' defensive secondary...