Word: coded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They should clarify the description of services," said Kilmartin, explaining that she "had no idea" her code could be deactivated...
...really care [if the code is deactivated]," Ho said...
...cope with these challenges, the emergency room is understaffed, under-funded and understocked. Once, during a "Code Blue" emergency resuscitation. the heartbeat monitoring machine ran out of paper. Another day, I tried to help as nurses searched for a valve to open an oxygen tank needed by a patient. The next week, I was sent to other parts of the hospital to track down scarce gauze and urinals...
...real reason for the spate of Mob movies is that a few powerful artists want to make them. Directors love the form because its speed and anarchy spoke to them as young moviegoers. More important, it allows them to confront, in code, the awful ethnic schisms of American life; Italian vs. Wasp stands in for black vs. white. Actors love Mob movies because, now that the western is dead, the genre gives them one last chance to strut their maleness in a traditional setting. They can act like cowboys without having to ride a horse. And, as avatars...
...than 2% -- supported the notion of full democratic rights for blacks, and most whites were vociferously ready to fight to the death against the very idea. But now a great many seemed resigned to the idea, provided a democratic constitution could guarantee protection for minorities -- whites, in the new code language...