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...often participate in the actual operations because some surgeons refuse to take the trouble to become familiar with new equipment or techniques. He says that his investigators have information implicating a dozen other salesmen in illegal surgery, including one case in which the factory representative had to remove a drill that became stuck in a patient's skull during brain surgery. Adds Lifflander: "What we found is that the level of incompetence among surgeons is a lot greater than anyone imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Amateur Hour | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

Three years ago, it took $87,000 to drill an average exploratory well-on land or offshore-and now it requires $112,000. Five of every six wells drilled are dry, and of the few with oil, roughly one out of 50 proves commercially profitable. Industry critics reply that much of the increased drilling activity is in areas where only small deposits are thought to exist but the chances of finding them are good. Clearly, adequate exploration incentives are needed if enough new oil is to be found to keep pace with even the Administration's target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How Big Are Big Oil's Profits? | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...drill is to walk to the bomb alone, describing what can be seen. Major Thomas, weary and middleaged, too old for the game, takes shelter behind a pillar in Westminster Abbey as his friend Osgood makes the first approach. Speak ing for the tape recorder that is the hedge against future failure, Osgood reports that the thing is in a neatly made wooden box, as usual. No wires or fuses are visible. The customary message is scrawled across the top: "Bugger the Queen Mum." The I.R.A., of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tick, Tick, Tick | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Kenneth A. Hon '81 said he thought the drill was worthwhile because he would not have known what to do. "I probably would have jumped out the window...

Author: By John W. Bogy, | Title: Yard Fire Drill Rudely Interrupts After-Dinner Relaxation Period | 10/7/1977 | See Source »

...drill, Shavers laid outstretched on a table and Lucca pounded Shaver's midsection with the ball. While slamming Shavers with increased effort, Lucca shouted, "Can he hurt...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Shavers Plans to Trim Ali | 9/29/1977 | See Source »

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