Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the exception of Britain, America's key Gulf War allies--notably France, Russia and Egypt--all oppose the use of force this time around. They urge Clinton to pursue an ill-defined diplomatic solution, ratcheting up the pressure until Saddam blinks. Clinton would love to prevail in that fashion, but he's not holding his breath. He knows that Saddam responds to diplomatic wrist slaps the way a tank does to toy guns. The watered-down resolution passed last week by the U.N. Security Council, which hit Iraq with a ban on official travel, must be laughable...
...Last week it was Japan and South Korea that gave the world a jolt. No sooner had rumors of a possible South Korean collapse swept out of Seoul than the Japanese yen and the Tokyo stock market plunged to their lowest levels in two years. Across the Pacific, the ill winds from Asia blew the Dow Jones industrial average into a 157-point drop on Wednesday. "The real problem in East Asia is not Thailand, Indonesia or the Philippines," says Kenneth Courtis, chief Asia-Pacific strategist for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell. "It is Japan and Korea...
What's worse, the ill feelings may translate into congressional action. Last week Sun CEO Scott McNealy was on Capitol Hill lobbying House Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde. Orrin Hatch, Hyde's Senate counterpart, has already held a Microsoft hearing, and is likely to hold more next year; Hyde is mulling similar action. "No one company," Hatch has solemnly opined, "should be able to dominate everything in one industry...
...Gerber was an internationally recognized teacher and scientist, respected by former students and colleagues worldwide. The Tulane University Medical Center is a financially vigilant and prudent institution whose faculty provides--for no fee--excellent care of indigent patients at New Orleans public hospitals. In your ill-conceived article, you have smeared the reputation of an outstanding physician, traumatized his grieving family and insulted a major academic center. In short, your article was dead wrong. JOHN C. LAROSA, M.D., Chancellor Tulane University Medical Center New Orleans...
...Maybe the health-maintenance-organization executive who could feel the surgeon make incisions when she underwent laparoscopic gall-bladder surgery was getting a taste of her own medicine. An HMO executive can really get concerned about the quality of care when it is her own. JOHN A. DILLE Naperville, Ill...