Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to lack both." Thatcher occasionally stumbled, as when she was asked why she had taken out private medical insurance rather than relying on the National Health Service. She replied, "To enable me to go into hospital on the day I want, at the time I want, with the doctor I want." That led Owen to castigate her for indifference toward those who cannot afford the luxury of choosing between private and state health care...
...theme for his address at the University of Florida until Daughter Cissy, who would receive a master's degree that day, offered a suggestion: how to get a job. At Loyola College in Baltimore, a well-known husband-and-wife team, Bob and Dolores Hope, was awarded honorary doctoral degrees -- his 53rd, in acknowledgment of which he dropped a chestnut: "Now that I am a doctor, at least I can get on the golf course on Wednesdays." At Vassar, Playwright John Guare and his spouse Designer Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would...
...policies forward." Both candidates traded charges about who would run the country's economy, schools, housing and National Health Service better. Thatcher, for example, defended private health coverage as "absolutely vital," so that she could go to the hospital "at the time I want and with the doctor I want." Michael Meacher, Labor's chief health spokesman, called that a "callous, inhumane and selfish" stance...
...made his debut on Broadway in 1913, acting in a comedy called The Misleading Lady. Other parts followed, but, itching to control the entire stage, he began writing and directing. For half a century after Broadway, his first big hit, he was the theater's leading show doctor, whose infallible diagnosis could make a bad play better and a good play terrific. Some equate the Abbott touch with speed, a notion that horrifies Abbott, who deplores farces that look as if they had been directed with a stopwatch. What is important to him is keeping the action alive and eliminating...
Informing the economist of the decision took a little longer. When tracked down by the White House switchboard, Greenspan was in his Manhattan doctor's office and unreachable for 20 minutes. Commented Reagan, who has seen all too many physicians during his two terms: "There's no telling what they're doing to that man." Eventually Greenspan emerged. Would he accept the job? The immediate answer...