Word: follows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peterson tells us that the "discipline of the marketplace" will accomplish this, or at the very least, get things moving towards this end. But how will this happen? Why should we believe that the invisible hand is good at providing quality in education? Like schoolchildren, we are told to follow a simple analogy: through competition, the marketplace brings out excellence in consumer goods, therefore competition will do the same for schools...
...hand I am worried that we may not follow-up on the Core as aggressively as we did last semester," Hulse added. "On the other hand I think the quantity of legislation coming out of the committee last year may have been diminished by our monomania about the Core...
...remedies have also found the limelight. So has one committed American woman who donated her bone marrow to a desperately sick person whom she had never met. When she was asked what moved her to come forward, and how she could tolerate the weeks of soreness and fatigue that follow the marrow harvesting, her reply was unassuming. She did it, she says, because "there's no choice. You're talking about saving somebody's life...
There are no new Listers or Virchows in the pages that follow, but the stories told are of healers who share those same qualities that have always been at the heart of medical innovation. Their contributions may not occupy entire chapters in future textbooks, but they have nonetheless helped many patients who might otherwise never have been relieved of their suffering. The men and women portrayed here are not so much icons as they are representatives of the kind of people who change medical care. The contributions of some are not, in fact, unique. Others are engaged in similar endeavors...
...this a naive hope? Unrealistic? Old-fashioned? Not at all. Not when Ted Turner has joined the bandwagon, pledging $1 billion to benefit United Nation's agencies in one of the largest charitable donations ever, and exhorting his super-rich colleagues to follow his lead...