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...A.M.A. makes another suggestion: that the medical community first heal itself, purging incompetent doctors from its ranks. How? By revamping peer- review procedures already in place and using computer systems to detect incompetent doctors, thus enabling hospitals to screen them...
That theory, put into practice, made James an extraordinarily subtle and supple critic. He could extol writers like Balzac and Dickens, whose narrative methods struck him as awkward but whose stories enchanted him all the same; he could meticulously detect aesthetic flaws in the works of George Eliot and Anthony Trollope and still commend their unique achievements...
...scheduled to spend some $26 billion over five years. There are fewer than 100 full-time staffers; most of the funds go for research projects assigned to private firms or federal facilities. So far, Abrahamson has spent much of his time soliciting bids from contractors for systems that could "detect, identify, discriminate, intercept and destroy ballistic missiles." Ten aerospace-industry study teams have been awarded $1 million each to come up with "architecture" studies describing more precisely what the military is seeking...
Conable listened to Jimmy Carter's entreaties. But it did not take long for the Congressman to detect the flaw in that presidency. "Carter conferred with God, Rosalynn and Amy and then made judgments about what was right and wrong, but he did not lead," says Conable. He was distressed when Jerry Ford did not get a second term because he felt Ford put results above personal glory. Nixon had to be moved off the national stage. Ford did it by pardoning him. Ford was then defeated...
Careful readers of the couple's book might detect a trace of bias. But the authors say they weren't a part of this freedom-loving movement...