Word: fallings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor's words may speak louder than actions, but every patient hears them differently, and doctors end up feeling they cannot win. When Cincinnati receptionist Doris Roetting had a mastectomy in the fall of 1987, her surgeon assured her that she was recuperating nicely. Her oncologist, however, was a bit more explicit, to Roetting's dismay. He quietly explained that she had a 90% chance of being alive in five years and an 80% chance of surviving ten years. Some patients might have been grateful for such candor; Roetting went home in tears. "I think everybody who has cancer knows...
...went public with a surprisingly frank assessment last week that, at least for the moment, a recession has replaced inflation as the leading threat to the U.S. economy. In his midyear report to Congress, Greenspan confirmed that since early June, the Fed had been allowing interest rates to fall in an attempt to prevent the sluggishness from becoming too pronounced. Said he: "What we seek to avoid is an unnecessary and destructive recession...
Ladd, a former Bunting fellow who has published several papers on race relations and equal opportunity, will take over as head of Radcliffe's multidisciplinary research center for women in the fall...
...desires, hypocritical or not, should be irrelevant to the Legislature's deliberations. The league has no power to prevent the state from implementing the plan, and state representatives, when they return from recess in the fall, should see the plan for what it is: a sensible attempt both to raise money and to reduce the income of organized crime...
...unreported income of prostitutes, bookies and drug dealers was targeted by Massachusetts for the first time in 1988. This year, beginning in the fall, the Commonwealth plans to go after the unreported sales of illegal drugs as well...