Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Side, and they have a house in Connecticut and a ranch in California. Sawyer is even getting involved in cooking. "She does it the way she does everything," says Nichols. "She cuts out 35 different versions of the recipe. We do it together. It is very detailed and sometimes complex." The pair met two years ago on a Concorde flight from London and went to lunch a couple of times to discuss doing a profile for 60 Minutes. Nichols finally confessed that he didn't want to do the piece -- but wanted to keep having lunch...
...conference now goes into closed-door committee sessions which may last several weeks before the foreign ministers return to Paris at the end of this month or early September. Three of four committees will focus on specific aspects of the complex peace process...
Those who, like Ponce, lament the anonymous quality of their treatment reflect a second revolution in patient care: the rise of the medical- industrial complex. Every bit as important as the advances in technology are the means of delivering them and deciding who should pay. Instead of an individual doctor seeing his regular patients in the privacy of his office, the typical encounter now occurs in the thick of a vast corporate hierarchy that monitors every decision and may weigh in against it. Marketing medicine has become very big business...
Almost from the beginning, New Delhi has argued that India is entitled to control all of Kashmir. Islamabad's claim is more complex: besides supporting a 1949 U.N. call for a plebiscite on Kashmir's future, Pakistan has marshaled what it considers proof that it has all along controlled the area from NJ 9842 to the Karakoram Pass on the Chinese border. Islamabad cites circumstantial evidence, like the fact that mountaineering expeditions for years sought Pakistan's permission to enter the region, and its agreement to cede some of the territory to China...
American physicians are teetering on their lofty pedestals. Never have doctors been able to do so much for their patients, and rarely have patients seemed so ungrateful. Today's doctors must contend with ever changing technology, ever threatening lawsuits and a medical-industrial complex second-guessing their every decision. No wonder they often feel as sick as their patients. See LIVING...