Word: interrupters
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...experience of a training week at Red Top, with no studies to interrupt the rowing, lent a special intensity to The Race. Despite the loss, there are no regrets. As one oarsman said of the week, "Never again in my life will I ever focus that much on one all-consuming thing...
...hospital would have been taken to the coronary care unit and continued to be monitored. It would be bed rest, oxygen and drugs to prevent such complications as arrhythmias and heart failure-but the heart attack would run its course." With this new technique doctors try to interrupt the attack by feeding a narrow tube through an artery in the groin into the blocked coronary vessel and injecting a drug called Streptokinase, which can dissolve the clot within an hour. Says...
...know you guys at Harvard put an emphasis on individualism and that's fine," he said, refusing to acknowledge my deprecatory gesture and attempt to interrupt. "But down here we like a less impersonal way of living so you like and can be with who you want for your friends and choose the guys you eat with...
Director of the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research(NBER)--the official monitor of the U.S. business cycle--Feldstein said "Cambridge is where I belong" and added that he did not want to interrupt his teaching and research at Harvard, where he has been a full professor since 1969. He did not rule out a part-time association with the Reagan White House...
Kissinger and other statesmen who have dealt with Kosygin have remarked on the former Premier's fanatic, indeed almost inhuman, devotion to duty. In 1967, when Kosygin learned that his wife Klavdiya was dying, for example, he did not interrupt his working day. When word of her death reached him, he remained atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square until he had finished reviewing a parade. Last week the great survivor's own passing was duly noted by his colleagues in the Kremlin, but was not conspicuously mourned...