Word: manner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...every adult in the United States is coming in for a physical, that's a lot of time. You lose half a day of work. That adds up as a society. [At the individual level], most patients report difficulty getting in to see their doctors in a timely manner. One of the things that could be contributing to [doctors' lack of time] is physicals...
...student life this year.While antagonism may have been an overarching theme of the student-College relationship this year, there were many notable exceptions, as progress generally followed communication and compromise. Significant strides in policy were made when the interaction was conceived of in a mutualistic, rather than confrontational, manner, and each side took the small steps necessary to improve the quality of life for Harvard’s students.The year opened auspiciously, as Harvard’s puritanical social scene managed to capture a surprising 10th place finish in a sex-life survey performed by Trojan Condoms. Quickly, however...
...only place in camp that refused to patronize. Farewell to the most recent additions to the cast. To Colonel Potter who saw the war as a Zane Grey western. To Charles Emerson Winchester III, Harvard’s own representative to the 4077th. To B.J. Honnicut, whose quiet manner let him get away with murder. Most of all, farewell to the oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan, and to the memory of Frank “No Lips?...
...execution of Charles Brooks, Jr. in a Texas prison last week was handled in a bizarre manner by the mainstream news media. In the New York Times and on network television news shows, the fact that Brooks was the first American to be executed by lethal injection often sidetracked the press into focusing on the “ethical questions” raised by a doctor’s participation in taking Brooks’s life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more “humane?...
...states spent much of the morning and early afternoon making their cases that they have been punished enough for leapfrogging the primary calendar against the Democratic National Committee's rules. Representatives from Hillary Clinton's campaign argued for why both delegations should be seated in full and in a manner fully reflective of her substantial victories in the two states. Representatives from Barack Obama's campaign countered that he wasn't even on the ballot in Michigan, and suffered at the polls in Florida because he wasn't able to campaign there. Then the committee broke for what was supposed...