Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some seniors, though, self-regulate. They don't drive at night or on busy highways. "I know what hours to go out and get ahead of those young people," says Mildred Mosely, 74, a retired nurse from Oakland, Calif., who cut back on her driving after cataract surgery...
...realistic. You can't expect to get over major abdominal surgery while walking up- and downstairs to a second-floor bedroom. Nor can you drive yourself home after cataract surgery...
...played nightclubs in New York City's Harlem with Benny Carter, among others, and was a member of the house band at the Apollo Theatre; but partly because of his legendary carousing, he never achieved the fame enjoyed by many of his colleagues. Blind from failed cataract surgery since 1992, he continued his hectic international touring schedule until this past June...
...participation rates have climbed, so have complaints, many of which sound like the horrors that would supposedly have taken place under the Clinton plan: rationing of procedures, a narrower choice of doctors. Fueling the backlash has been a spate of front-page stories about plans that will pay for cataract surgery in only one eye or that keep doctors from discussing expensive types of care. In a recent nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-care philanthropy, 55% of those in managed care said they worry that their health plan is concerned more about saving money than...
...moments sometimes came across as a bit too brisk and deliberate--as, for example, in the famous cuckoo trill bridging the second and third movements. Tipler's choice of tempi was a little mystifying, especially in the second movement, where Beethoven's idyllic brook sounded more like a flooded cataract. There were times, however, when the sheer beauty of the music soared and the peaceful, spiritual emotions shone through...