Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occasionally, heartening evidence surfaces that some people still care about serious fiction after all. Here is a long, challenging novel by a highly praised writer, and it has spurred a frenzy of international attention. Headlines have bristled. Voices have been raised, although not exactly in unanimous praise. The book has been banned in a number of countries with substantial Muslim populations; its appearance in the West has been greeted with isolated public protests and telephoned bomb threats...
Neil Kinnock, the Labor Party leader, pounced on the government, accusing the Tories of "putting cash before care" and "profits before patients." Labor health spokesman Robin Cook said the proposal would "put bureaucrats in the driving seat at the expense of doctors and patients," and denounced it as a "prescription for a health service run by accountants...
Those charges struck a chord among middle-and lower-income Britons, who fear a future of progressively better services for an increasingly wealthy few. The issue goes to the heart of Britain's free-health-care system and moves the country toward medical treatment based largely on the patient's ability to pay. Says Paul Swain, a London hospital consultant: "A majority of people really like the NHS no matter how much they grumble about...
...been an extension of normal human behavior, more than the '70s and '60s. Then there was a reluctance among educated people to show their affluence -- it was the time of the debutante in blue jeans who worked in a child-care center...
...Gielen played great," Harvard Coach Peter Roby said. "Eight assists and zero turnovers. You can't play any better than that. I don't care how many points you score...