Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These past weeks, I have reviewed with horror and disgust my own inflammatory, biased and ill-considered remarks about the candidates, their policies, their motives and even their wives. What, indeed, had I to do with this latest paroxysm of violence? What can I possibly do to prevent another? I have no .22-cal. weapon to lay down, but I have preconceived opinions to lay aside, and harsh, irresponsible words to swallow...
...social security. Though their Daniels house had minimal facilities (no hot running water), the Overingtons had taken pains with the painting and papering and were convinced that they would live there the rest of their lives. Last week they moved to a $75-a-month apartment which they can ill-afford...
...impoverished and badly in need of rehabilitation. Paint peels from sagging walls. Windows are smashed throughout the complex of 34 buildings, and the heating system is so antiquated that some wards must be shut down entirely in winter because the temperature cannot be pushed above 40°. The ill-ventilated, six-story maternity wing, where 3,500 babies are born each year, does not have a single bath or shower. Sighs Staff Physician William V. McDermott: "This is a hell of a way to run a hospital...
...hospital's patient services are as inadequate as its plant. Nurses and aides are in such short supply that the gravely ill sometimes die unnoticed and unattended; fragile premature babies have missed crucial feedings. Surgery patients must wait as long as two months until operating facilities become available. In some minor cases, doctors are known to have used instruments that were just dipped in rusty sinks. On a typical Saturday, the hospital treats 500 emergency patients-nearly twice as many as all of Boston's other hospitals combined-but its scandalous state is so well known to ghetto...
...danger in administering such medicine is that the IMF, as the doctor in charge, might become a bit ill itself. In financing the French and British drawings, the IMF had to sell off $582 million worth of its own gold reserves. Although the organization's total reserves still remain fixed at $21.1 billion, a growing share of that is held in dollars, pounds and francs-the very currencies that creditor countries have been shunning. It thus would have made little sense for the IMF to try to defend the franc by making its loan to Paris largely in dollars...