Word: feb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...report, published in the Feb. 7 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, disclosed that nearly four percent of all hospital patients in the state of New York were injured by mismanaged medical care...
KISSES (TNT, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. EST). Ted Turner keeps finding new ways to mine his extensive movie collection: Lauren Bacall is the host of this lighthearted documentary on the history of the movie kiss...
LUCY & DESI: BEFORE THE LAUGHTER (CBS, Feb. 10, 9 p.m. EST). Frances Fisher and Maurice Benard, winners of CBS's anyone-can-star contest, play the former First Couple of Comedy in a TV movie about their "loving but stormy" marriage...
...string of policy reversals cast something of a chill on U.S.-Soviet relations as well. Last week the superpowers agreed to postpone the presidential summit that had been scheduled for Feb. 11-13 in Moscow. The ostensible reason was the gulf war and the need for more work on a strategic- arms treaty. But the U.S. was also attempting to indicate its disapproval of the Kremlin's backsliding on reform...
...alleged violations are relatively small, involving medical supplies and computers. But some concern illegal weapons shipments. Moreover, congressional investigators are probing an Italian bank's handling of $750 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture credits extended to Iraq in the 1980s for food purchases. In an internal memo dated Feb. 23, 1990, administrator F. Paul Dickerson warned Under Secretary Richard Crowder: "In a worst case scenario, investigators would find a direct link to financing Iraqi military expenditures, particularly the Condor missile." Despite Dickerson's warning, the department was still considering $500 million in additional credits when Saddam invaded Kuwait...