Word: felted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...created confusion for filmmakers and audiences and was basically tantamount to censorship, since these boards laid out certain behaviors that could and could not occur in a movie whatsoever. Jack determined that we needed to put some order and structure to this system to give parents some predictability. He felt, rightly so, that the prime purpose of ratings were to give parents information about movies...
Although most surveyed patients said they were satisfied with their hospital care overall, the data show that respondents weren't equally pleased with every aspect of care. Nearly 80% of patients said they felt their doctors always communicated well with them, for example. But less than three quarters said nursing services were always good, or that their rooms were always clean. Noisiness was an issue: Barely half of the surveyed patients said their rooms were always quiet...
...HCAHPS survey asked 27 questions about patients' demographic characteristics and eight areas of patient perceptions: communication with doctors, communication with nurses, quality of nursing services, communication about medications, pain control, information received when leaving hospital, and whether hospital rooms were clean and quiet. About 80% of surveyed patients felt they got good information at discharge. Only 60% said they always had good information about medications administered to them in the hospital...
That night made the next morning seem all the more terrible. When I learned that Peter Cai, a student I had never met, had passed away, it sent me reeling. I felt a reflexive clench in my chest and I suddenly wanted to hold everyone around me to keep them safe. In that one instant, I felt a lot of things for which there are no words. How do you put into words the fact that you’re sorry for all the times you were petty, every time you were sullen, and every minute that passed...
...class voters in Pennsylvania, the crucial battleground state where Biden was born and to which he has made six trips since joining the Democratic ticket. In a recent national Pew Research Center poll, 60% of those surveyed said they had a favorable view of Biden, compared with 44% who felt that way about Palin. And that was before a civil war of anonymous quotes broke out within the McCain-Palin operation, with Palin's allies saying she is frustrated enough to "go rogue" against her handlers and McCain's calling his running mate a "diva...