Word: disappeared
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...harder than writing out orders on paper, takes far more time and in too many ways is just not as good. We're never quite sure that what we've typed is going to be seen by a real, live, analog nurse, that it isn't just going to disappear. (It does.) We can't order certain things with those buttons and pull-down menus that we could in writing - things like "patient may wear her own flannel nightgown and underwear" or "please, please get the x-ray I ordered for yesterday", or "prop up patient's legs with pillows...
...continues to wish that North Korea would disappear. That really is our policy. So we had four years of no policy for North Korea other than waiting for them to collapse, and we've now had six years of that same policy, waiting for them to collapse. And you can say a lot of things about North Korea, most of them bad, but one reality is they will not go gently into that dark night." - to the U.S.-Korea Institute...
...Science on Feb. 12, the marine ecologist William Cheung announced that climate change would have a devastating impact on the world's commercial fish and shellfish populations, including tuna, herring and prawns. Fish would flee toward the poles to escape rising temperatures, and many species would all but disappear from their familiar habitats. Many would not survive the transition - Cheung estimated that the Atlantic cod's distribution could drop by up to 50% by 2050 thanks to climate change. "The scary thing is that this isn't just happening in the future," he says. "We're seeing similar things happening...
...borrowing from a firm owned by the government should be extremely low. Borrowing from a U.S. regional bank is, on paper, more risky. All inter-bank borrowing would almost certainly move toward taking money from the firms backed by the government balance sheet. Interbank lending among private banks could disappear...
...disconnect between much of the media - with its breathless and impatient coverage - and most people out there. Most people are more patient and sophisticated, and appreciate that our problems have developed over a long period of time. They're realistic enough to understand that they are not going to disappear overnight...