Word: dying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...described by Mattson and Kennedy, the principles of agreement mean the union appeared to have won its fight to keep the jobs of its members, and the publishers have apparently won the right to reduce work forces by not replacing employees who die, retire, or are fired...
...such aircraft). The decrease in the number of fatalities for each mile flown in such private traffic is also impressive: fatal accidents averaged .204 per 100,000 hrs. flown in 1967 and only .076 per 100,000 hrs. last year. Private pilots argue, quite accurately, that more Americans die each year in boating and swimming accidents than in light aircraft mishaps...
...into the bloodstream, doctors are able to keep alive patients with shortened guts, inflamed bowels, and immunological defects that prevent proper digestion of food. It is also used for burn victims and people receiving drug or radiation treatment following cancer surgery. Without intravenous feeding many of these patients would die, not of their diseases, but because they were unable to eat or absorb enough food to sustain life; they would literally starve to death. In fact, doctors estimate that at least 10% of all hospital deaths are attributable to malnutrition and another 30% are due in part to insufficient nourishment...
...calories a day, and not enough nutrients to meet the body's needs. Dr. Dudrick came face to face with the nutrition problem one weekend in 1961 when, as a young surgical intern in Philadelphia, he helped perform successful operations on three patients only to have them die from what the chief surgeon diagnosed as malnutrition. Recalls Dudrick: "He told me, 'Nothing we can do with knives can overcome that...
...Golfers Never Die...