Word: helped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...malpractice threat. Those who manage to stay in business may feel forced to practice a kind of medicine that assumes every patient is a prospective litigant. Such defensive tactics are antithetical to compassionate care: the doctor ends up being afraid of someone he or she wants to help, cautious about trying attractive new treatments and emotionally aloof from someone in need of emotional support...
...environmentalists concede that in some respects the President's plan has been improved. Perhaps anticipating an outcry from the left, Bush's aides added unexpected new restrictions on coal- fired power plants that would require utilities to cap acid-rain-causing emissions after the year 2000. Such provisions help explain why industry largely withheld its endorsement last week. As an Administration official said, "If we're taking fire from both sides, it tells you something about where we are on the political spectrum...
...began shooting for her May 22 essay on a day in the life of the President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job easier today?" Chimed in White House photographer David Valdez: "Just pretend she isn't here...
...other dissatisfied workers threatening strikes. "The situation," said Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev last week as he surveyed the turmoil rocking his vast country, "is fraught with dangerous political and economic consequences." The question for Gorbachev: Will the "revolution from below," which he has been urging on his laggard countrymen, help accelerate his ambitious plans for reform -- or tear the U.S.S.R. apart...
...minded Baltic states and a wave of ethnic violence in the Caucasus and central Asia. Only < last week bloody rioting that left 20 dead erupted between minority Abkhazians and the Georgian majority in a Black Sea region of western Georgia. Some 3,000 Interior Ministry troops were dispatched to help local police quiet the unrest. But the audacious mining walkout has presented Gorbachev with the most serious labor challenge he has had to face, and casts in graphic terms the cruel dilemma of perestroika: how to raise productivity and living standards at the same time...