Word: focused
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole, however, JCAH standards have not been formulated so as to measure either the outcomes of hospital care, nor even the technical processes of care. Instead, audits like those of the JCAH have tended largely to be structural; that is, they focus on assessment of the resources assembled in the hospital to deliver care, not on the care, itself...
Section leaders do the grading. They help students determine what kind of issues to focus on. They make or break a course. Only in the case of the Core, the stakes are higher. A section leader who emphasizes facts at the expense of approach single-handedly stands between the student and a well-rounded education...
...meantime, congressional committees are rushing to schedule hearings, many of which will focus on the possible involvement of other Government officials or agencies in the Iran-contras scam. First up: the Senate Intelligence Committee, which was scheduled to hold hearings Monday to investigate what might have been known by Casey and the CIA, which keeps close tabs on the contras and set up a Swiss bank account to receive money paid by Iran for U.S. arms. Says Vice Chairman Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat: "I don't see how the money could be transferred, the logistics could be handled...
...workers and reduce by half the planned output at its proposed ultra-computerized Saturn plant in Tennessee. Said Ann Knight, who follows the auto industry for PaineWebber: "If GM should really downsize itself, some of its need for EDS would go away." Some observers think the negotiations did not focus on the sale of EDS but on increased business -- or a possible joint venture -- between...
...nonsense here. The blues have no tolerance for fancy language or extravagant rhythms. This is music in hard focus and precise form, haiku for voice and guitar. "All my love's in vain," Robert Johnson sang, and whenever that feeling comes around to anyone, it is always to a blues accompaniment...