Word: coexisting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ilium, alias Schenectady, N.Y., where he labored unhappily as a public relations man for General Electric (Player Piano). It also includes the mysterious paradise of Tralfamadore, a planet where little green men explain to earthlings that time is not a flowing river but a range of mountains, all eternally coexistent. Many of Vonnegut's characters, too, coexist from book to book. Kilgore Trout, the science-fiction writer who eventually becomes the catalyst of disaster in Breakfast of Champions (Delacorte; $7.95), first appeared in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater...
...dichotomies and contradictions implicit in the practice of medicine are numerous. The nature of medicine is two-fold: the science and the art coexist. The doctor's relationship with his patient is of a dual character. As Plato suggests, the physician is a friend to his patient as both a technophile (friend of medicine) and an anthropophile (friend of man). We seek an answer to the contradicitions in the physician's oath: Is the doctor foresworn primarily to prolong life or to curtail suffering? Is he bound primarily to a legal code or his own conscience? Furthermore, the sacred...
...Last time through they had some stuffed shirt introduce them in his best M.P. accent so they could play in front of three flags, one English, and two American. The band is as expected. Beck's been surrounding himself with mediocrities ever since it became clear he couldn't coexist with Rod Stewart; Bogert and Appice are competent journeymen, but then who's going to see them...
Describing the Kissinger-Nixon design, Hoffmann continues: "Ideology would not disappear, but its external effects would be neutralized; different political systems would coexist. A great power would be more concerned with its maneuvers with and around the other major states than with the courtship of the weak. Thus mobility would be restored to the diplomatic game, and changes in the international system would once more result from the playing of the game itself rather than from 'eyeball to eyeball' crises...
...exempt from paying the 10% stamp tax charged for business transactions, and the payments to and from its members are untouched by income or inheritance taxes. For all that, Lieut. General Fikret Elbizim, fund chairman, solemnly asserts: "We are not after any privileges. We merely want to coexist with the private and state sectors." Turkish businessmen can only imagine what they would have to contend with if the armed forces wanted more than coexistence...