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...tissue (biopsy) from the corresponding position on the other breast and check that for the possibility of what doctors call bilateral disease. Over the years, Urban has followed this practice in about 80% of the approximately 1,200 mastectomies he has performed, withholding it only if the patient is infirm or too ill from advanced cancer or other disease...
WHEN HIS son lives past the destined age of twenty, Honda realizes that he must be a counterfeit. Old now, and infirm, he travels to the abbey where his friend's lover Satoko is now the abbess. She receives him warmly, but denies any knowledge of him or his friend Kiyoaki...
...essential to have a strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed out 'against inflation: eggs up 99% since 1970, cheese 78%, chicken 69% and bread will rise to just half a penny less than the celebrated "three-shilling loaf that Heath...
Built to house a flood of World War II veterans, the Towers has seen most of its original residents leave. Those who could afford them bought their own houses, and now only the poorest and most infirm of the original tenants remain. The families that are taking their place are of a different breed. The Housing Authority estimates that 80 per cent of their applicants for places in public housing are broken families-families with one parent missing, usually the father. These people bring a host of problems which a place like Roosevelt Towers is not equipped to handle...
...whether to be a farce or a tearjerker, finally settles for being just absurd. Sophia Loren appears as the most ravishing nun in Eu rope; she gave her life to mother church after her boyfriend got deep-fried in an oil fire. She ministers to the sick and the infirm as head of an Italian hospital, which is riddled with both political strife and human tragedy. The movie is unrelentingly simpleminded, and treats all subjects from cardiac ar rests to brimming bedpans with a jovial mixture of high spirits, low comedy and bad taste. Loren breezes through it all beautiful...