Word: daylights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faced with such potentially inflammatory hard numbers express concern that the consumer may not be able at all to tell the differences between a bad hospital (with high death rates due to poor care) and a good one (with high death rates due to very complex patient cases). The daylight of data has starkly shown the poverty of measurement methods...
...last July, after it was passed along to him by Senior Writer Frank Trippett, who received a copy from a friend at a North Carolina newspaper. "I was about halfway through reading it when I started crying," recalls Jaynes. "I thought, if I'm crying, this letter should reach daylight." His instincts proved correct. "Margie's words, as eloquent as they were, brought about a storm of response," he says. "She told me later that she'd been offered new glasses and teeth enough to outfit the state of North Carolina...
...some extent, their charges are valid. But then again, in a society in which security forces snatched people off the street in broad daylight simply because they shared a last name with someone the government suspected of having guerrilla connections, in which the economy is 60 percent government controlled and most depend on Government House to put their daily bread on the table, and in which years of military dictatorship have left the lesson that if you are quiet and obedient you will survive, everyone to a certain extent condoned the military. Everyone was both a victim and an accomplice...
...schools of small boats gave way to the majestic masters of the daylight hours, the 22 tall ships from 18 countries. The stately succession of tall ships was a graceful ambassador from a vanished, less hectic age. As a cool breeze billowed sails and spirits and Navy guns fired in salute, some spectators reacted with the quiet awe that is more commonly found in gazing at great cathedrals. "I feel like I'm watching history," said Julie Cook of Brookville, Pa. She was indeed...
Last week Congress apparently decided the U.S. should "spring forward" three weeks earlier than it does now. The Senate passed a bill setting the first Sunday in April as the opening of daylight time, beginning next year. ) Observers expect that the bill will be reconciled with a similar measure passed by the House, which would also add a week at the end of daylight time before the annual "fall back...