Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...negotiations with banks and creditor committees, leaving executives free to run their businesses. "Some people call us vultures," says adviser Jay Alix, "but that's unfair, because we provide a valuable service. Just as people with cancer go to a doctor, and people with a toothache go to a dentist, sick companies come to us. We're debt doctors...
...After Princeton scared the bejabbers out of mighty Michigan State, losing earlier this season by two points, Jud Heathcote sang the same tune. "We don't want to play them anymore." Jim Valvano, the coach at North Carolina State, says playing a Carril team is like going to the dentist: very painful. Carril accepts the backhanded compliments as reluctant praise, although he says, "These guys must study one-liners at night...
...supposed to be a dentist. At least, that's what his mother had told him ever since he was six years old. But after two years of chemistry classes--and hockey games--at RPI, Tomassoni had other things on his mind...
...Seattle dentist Barney Clark became a household name in 1982 as the first patient to receive the Jarvik-7, the world's first artificial heart. Clark lived 112 days more, because of the polyurethane-and-metal pump. Five patients in all received the permanent implant; all died in less than two years. But the device helped buy time for 150 patients who relied on an implant until a heart transplant was possible. Last week the Food and Drug Administration stunned medical researchers by recalling the Jarvik heart, which is made by Symbion, a Tempe, Ariz., company...
...like going to the dentist, only better," said Barbara Bush last week, after undergoing the first of ten consecutive days of radiation therapy at Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She is being treated for Graves' disease, an affliction that inflames the thyroid gland and can cause bulging, watery eyes and double vision. After her session, she dashed off with characteristic aplomb to the White House pool for her customary 60 laps...