Word: finding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are those who argue that litigation actually slows the progress of medicine. "Innovative techniques don't get used very often for this reason," says George Miller, an orthopedic surgeon in Washington, N.C., who last year won a malpractice suit that had dragged on for "eight long years." Doctors find themselves taking a more rote approach, what some call "cookbook medicine." By following standard procedures as much as possible, the physician may hope to avoid any controversy that might arise in court -- and thus steers clear of promising, if less proven technologies and treatments...
...NOTES by Rick Bass (Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence; $16.95). There is no better conversation than good shop talk; here a petroleum geologist ("I know how to find oil") tells many of the tricks of his trade and proves, in the process, that he also knows how to write...
...argument is the right of citizen taxpayers. They send representatives to Washington who are answerable for the expenditure of funds exacted from them. In general these voters want to favor their own values if government is going to get into the culture-subsidizing area at all (a proposition many find objectionable in itself). Politicians, insofar as they support the arts, will tend to favor conventional art (certainly not masochistic art). Anybody who doubts that has no understanding of a politician's legitimate concern for his or her constituents' approval. Besides, it is quaint for those familiar with the politics...
...late '70s, he built a small, solvent outfit of his own. He also married Laura Welch, a librarian, just three months after they met. She explains the courtship's brevity by saying, "We were both 30, and had had a lot of single years. We were glad to find each other...
...saturat ed urban setting far removed, spiritually if not physically, from Mother Nature. They are city dwellers accustomed at cherry-blossom time each year to seeing decorative artificial flowers attached to electric poles -- right next to real trees. Those based in Tokyo, for example, would be hard-pressed to find any sizable patches of green in the neon-drenched, congested concrete megalopolis that sprawls around their tiny studios. All of the featured artists' works, in subject matter as well as execution, not only defy tradition but in some cases tear it to shreds...