Word: bypassers
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...gulf. So they were not overly thorough in checking passengers hurrying through to catch the plane to Karachi, which was leaving at about the same time as the royal flight. Several youths in their 20s who had arrived on a connecting flight from Beirut evidently managed to bypass a security check in the transit lounge and went directly to the departure gate...
...hear the tenant organizers tell it, Harvard is getting out of the market to make a quick profit and bypass Cambridge rent control laws...
Financial triage of various sorts is already taking place even among fully insured patients in the best hospitals. In one New Jersey hospital, for example, there were two thoracic surgeons who did a number of bypass operations. One screened his patients carefully, rejecting smokers, overweight people and other risks; the second accepted sicker patients, including several whom the first had rejected. The second doctor's patients had to stay in the hospital an average of five days longer, and when that showed up on the hospital's computers, his privileges were withdrawn on the ground that his work cost...
...contrast, said Jarvik, Schroeder's surgery was notable for "a great feeling of deliberate, calm progress," making it seem "almost routine." The only difficulty came in removing the diseased heart, which was surrounded by a thick envelope of scar tissue, the legacy of bypass surgery performed less than two years ago. "The scarring made it difficult to identify structures," explained Lansing, who assisted in the operation. "It's like looking through a fog." As a result, instead of taking the usual five minutes, it took half an hour just to extract the organ. Once that was accomplished, DeVries...
...January 1983, Schroeder's busy family life and career were disrupted by a massive heart attack, which seriously damaged his heart muscle and left him crippled with angina, or chest pain. Two months later he underwent double-bypass surgery...