Word: lopata
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...that has been making investors steadily richer since last August is also producing a crop of instant multimillionaires: owners of companies that are selling their first shares to the public. The "new issue" boom is being fueled by rising demand from investors for high-technology stocks. According to Roger Lopata, editor of the trade journal Going Public, the cash raised this quarter alone by companies making their public debut could top the total of $1.45 billion for all of last year...
...Does your wife understand?" Dr. Lopata asks. "She says she does," the man replies, "but I don't think she does...
...David Lopata, a slim, bearded VA psychologist, lets the men into a conference room. It is the afternoon group therapy outpatient session for veterans suffering from a disorder called "posttraumatic stress." Several patients light cigarettes. Lopata asks softly, "Okay, where do we begin today?" A stocky blond veteran opens up slowly: "I don't feel that I trust anybody ... Maybe it's just that they don't understand. I don't know, but look at us. None of us at this table has any real friends." "How do you talk about what happened over there?" another asks...
...crucial second stage. Where almost three inches of windpipe (trachea) was missing above the neck opening, Dr. Montgomery constructed a new windpipe from flaps of skin obtained from vertical cuts down the neck. To cover the gaps left by removal of these flaps, he took still other strips from Lopata's thighs. Into the windpipe opening went a valved silver tube...
...theory is that the muscular action of swallowing will automatically close Lopata's new pharyngeal valve; he will continue to inhale through the silver tube, but when he exhales, the air will go past the closed tube and activate the valve at the top of the windpipe. This will serve as a substitute voice box, and Dr. Montgomery is confident that Lopata's speech will be superior to a "burp...