Word: friday
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Todd's wife Kim, along with his parents, followed him to Durham, where they all checked into a double room at the Brookwood Inn, about 500 yds. from the Duke Hospital entrance. On Friday, a biopsy revealed that Todd was deteriorating fast, headed toward "fulminant hepatic failure." Without a new liver soon, he would die. The family was in no mood to learn, as they did that afternoon from Trotter, that PHP wanted Todd moved to a hospital where it had a capitation contract limiting their financial exposure. Trotter would not tell Kim exactly where they wanted...
...Hunter, meanwhile, is desperate. Her attempts to reach Brown at PHP on Friday were thwarted, she says, by a full voice-mail queue. She wants her husband to stay at Duke under the care of Drs. Trotter and Tuttle, whom she trusts. When a woman at PHP she believes was Brown finally returned her call Tuesday afternoon on the pay phone near the surgery ward, her message to Kim was that PHP "had a deal" with Duke that if it hadn't transplanted Todd over the weekend, it would move him to unc. "It felt like they were trying...
...Florida Marlins manager Jim Leyland quit his job last Friday because...
...tougher competition for the online bookseller; Microsoft, which lost 20 points on general sector pessimism before recovering some on Thursday; Lycos, off by almost half its value in the past three days; and of course tech bellwether Yahoo, down 25 points since Tuesday alone. All four were perking up Friday -- has the sector stopped bleeding? "It depends," says Schwartz. "More earnings reports are due the next few weeks, and then we'll know." Considering the still-sorry economic state of Asia, which remains the sector's feast-or-famine export market, we may know already...
...expect the Cruise missiles to fly before next Thursday: Despite the familiar "time is running out" warning to a defiant President Slobodan Milosevic Friday, NATO's attack plan still has a few steps to go. The Western alliance needs its 16 members to sign an "activation order," which mandates the generals to give the attack order. That can't happen before Germany's new parliament convenes, which is unlikely to be before Monday. And then there's the matter of getting a signature out of Italy, whose government collapsed Friday. "Despite resigning, Romano Prodi could sign the order...