Word: incurring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personal hygiene, particularly in hospitals, has canceled many of the gains of modern medicine. According to Dr. Robert Elston of the American Public Health Association, many hospital staffers believe that antibiotics have made frequent hand washing unnecessary. But the A.P.H.A. reports that about 5% of all patients now incur infections during their hospital stays. Almost 40% of nurses, for example, were found to carry resistant strains of infection-producing bacteria. An unpublished study by the faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons identified even worse offenders: "One of the most persistent purveyors of germs in a given...
...might seem impossible for anyone to devise an auto-insurance plan more fouled up than the one now actually in effect in the U.S. Under the present system, drivers pay high premiums, insurers incur heavy losses, and the nation's accident victims recover only about a fifth of the $5.1 billion a year in medical expenses, loss of income and other tangible damage that they suffer. Massachusetts politicians, however, have almost succeeded in producing something even worse. They have taken a highly promising plan for reform and turned it into a hash that, unless quickly amended, could prevent many...
...tensions of the task are trying, but they should not be allowed to overwhelm us, as they did to the handful of guys answerable for Saturday night's mistake. We should try to bear in mind that narrow-based groups can stage narrow-based actions and in their isolation incur unnecessary penalties that cut at their long-range effectiveness in bringing down this system, and they can do this without having ever added to their support or heightened others' awareness...
...accept the challenge that is with us and will not go away, and live up to our potential as a society, or else we'll go down the drain of history as a nation that had all the potential, all of the resources, but blew it, and we will incur the pity of the world, and deserve...
...earth, fathom the depths of the sea and the limits of space. In an instant of high-arching pride as men vault to these ambitious goals, fate fells them, and they return to the dust from which they came. The ancient Greek tragedies are cautionary tales of how men incur the wrath of the gods by trying to be gods...