Word: lebanonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good news is that focusing on quality pays off, as heart surgeons at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., have demonstrated. They started by surveying all their colleagues in the surrounding area and following up with their patients. Then they developed procedural standards that cut mortality from cardiac operations 24% from 1991 to 1996. Moreover, they cut costs 20% and boosted both patient and doctor satisfaction. A home run by anyone's measure...
...siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia to avoid being trapped under the coming Russian terror. And in his first job with TIME, in 1965, he was one of our most fearless war correspondents in Vietnam. He repeated that role in the vicious war in Lebanon in 1975. He then held postings around the world and became the managing editor of TIME's international editions, building a fledgling into what is today a thriving global presence for this magazine. He was demanding of the people who worked for him and equally tough on the people he worked...
...guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls. In Lebanon interrogators employ the "Flying Carpet": a procedure during which an electric rod is shoved under the genitals of a prisoner strapped to a chair. A soldier takes a photo of the rod being applied "to show it to us before we meet our maker," says a former inmate who survived...
...Lebanon and Syria today treated Israel?s offer to withdraw from southern Lebanon as something akin to an April Fool?s joke, indicating they weren?t interested in even discussing the matter with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, tacked on to the headline-grabbing announcement that Israel accepted a 20-year-old U.N. resolution ordering its withdrawal from Lebanon, is the rider that Netanyahu would only redeploy his forces once Israel?s security had been guaranteed by Lebanon and Syria. Since the U.N. resolution calls for unconditional and unilateral Israeli withdrawal, today?s announcement looks like little more than...
...just waiting to step in. In fact, all efforts to organize an effective Iraqi opposition have failed. There is a good chance Saddam would be replaced by Saddam II, another Baathist general ready to continue the military dictatorship. More likely still, a headless Iraq would go the way of Lebanon, fractured among Kurds in the north, Shi'ites in the south and Sunnis in the center egged on by meddling neighbor states pursuing oil and ethnic interests...