Word: exactement
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...said he will most likely begin serving late this spring, although the exact date is uncertain...
Managed care was meant to lighten the load on emergency services by emphasizing affordable preventive care that would keep people out of the ED. Instead, says Dr. Vincent Markovchick, emergency-services chief at Denver Health Medical Center, "the exact opposite has happened." Like many ED docs, he contends that primary-care physicians--feeling overworked and discouraged from doing expensive "extra" tests like an MRIs or EKGs--often hand off patients to the ED. Now patients who turn up there are sicker than ever before. Today 20% of visitors are admitted to the hospital, compared with around 12% a decade...
...provoke the Greenwich police to take extraordinary measures. They had not investigated a murder in 46 years. They initially left Martha's body unattended, and a dog defiled some of the evidence. They allowed a funeral director to remove the corpse before a medical examiner arrived, preventing an exact assessment of the time of death. They never obtained a warrant to search the Skakel home. And conflicts of interest abounded. It was (and is) the custom in Greenwich for off-duty policemen to work as bodyguards or chauffeurs for wealthy residents. "In retrospect, we probably treated the Skakels differently...
...lost by denying religious freedom, especially considering how little the Chinese government gains through their repression. The recent WTO negotiations would have been an ideal opportunity for the U.S. to make its feelings clear and link them to China's economic interests, instead of merely trying to exact concessions for well-connected economic sectors...
...abstract, immutable beauty of, say, geometry, have to do with the concrete, transitory comeliness of a face, or even of a sunset? Clearly for a whole lot of people the appreciation of concrete beauty is not the beginning of a route to moral or intellectual perfection but the exact opposite...