Word: infirmity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...profits from which will be plowed back into the community. Next week she is launching her first assault on U.S. government policy: a three-week "have a heart" campaign exhorting customers to tell members of Congress to spend less money defending Europe and more on children, the elderly, the infirm, the homeless and the unemployed...
Diana relishes being her own woman, playing the role to the hilt. She has become an ardent patron of many causes, especially involving AIDS patients, the infirm and deprived children. "I doubt if anyone in the British Isles is better at going into a ward filled with people with cancer or AIDS," says biographer Philip Ziegler. Those close to her say the princess is very savvy and streetwise and, when not in the grip of frustration or rage, well able to size up her position. "She recognizes what people want from her," says someone who has worked with...
...SPECTER haunting this decision was Nazi Germany and its policy of killing the aged, infirm, mentally handicapped and other people whose quality of life was poor enough (as the Nazis saw it) to justify eliminating them for the greater good of society. This was the slippery slope down which the Florida courts feared to slide...
Introduced in only a few medical centers so far, such role playing is designed to expose doctors to the anguish endured by the infirm. It is just one of several techniques being tried at U.S. medical schools and hospitals in an attempt to deal with the most universal complaint about doctors: lack of compassion. "Residents are usually young, healthy, privileged," says Dr. Stephen Brunton of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in Long Beach, Calif. "They've not really had a chance to understand what patients go though...
...latest addition to the crop is Jim McGeehan, who Saturday led Pennsylvania to a 28-19 beating of Brown. The Philadelphia native, who stepped in for an infirm Fitz McKinnon, collected 183 yards on 10-for-19 passing, including two touchdowns...