Word: ingrown
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relationship is actually poisoned on both sides. Patients may insist on the most conscientious care and yet balk at the battery of tests that doctors order to cover themselves. "You come in for an ingrown toenail, and they turn you inside out giving you all kinds of tests that you don't need," says columnist Ann Landers, who receives complaints from all concerned. "The bill is horrendous. The doctors want to be able to prove that they didn't miss anything. It makes people mad, and I don't blame them...
...assess the situation in South Carolina. An academy panel concluded last year that DOE was torn by the "conflicting responsibilities" of meeting production quotas while maintaining safety. Operation of the facilities, it said, had been left in the hands of "largely self-regulated contractors," while safety oversight was "ingrown and largely outside the scrutiny of the public...
...Harvard lineup may suffer from the loss of Oja, a sophomore, who is suffering from an ingrown toenail...
...mole who tries to foil Preston, is no more stale or unbelievable than most. Freshness and credibility, in any case, are not requirements. Perhaps the reason is that Preston is without a side. Le Carré would have given him a faithless wife, or at least an ingrown toenail, to tease the mind with antiheroic irony...
...train stopped in New Haven, he dashed out to telephone his office. The Metroliner pulled out before he could finish, leaving him stranded. By the time he reached Manhattan on a slower train, many of the potential givers had left. Later in the week he had to have an ingrown toenail surgically treated. In his haste to catch an airplane, he locked his keys in his wife...