Word: massed
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...part of Obama’s stimulus package. Levy attributed the remaining major losses to the operating budget to a decreased patient load because of the financial crisis. Some of the decrease resulted from a new policy that no longer allows emergency room diversions to Beth Israel from Mass. General and Brigham and Womens’ hospitals, Levy said. Levy added at the meeting that there has been a cultural shift in treatment as well, as workers insecure in their employment postpone taking time off for elective surgery out of the fear their job might not be there when they...
...advancing fast and the delight of knowing for sure that the world is getting better, quicker. As the savings-investment cycles reach their fever pitch in South and East Asia, these societies will undoubtedly spend their trillions of reserves on infrastructure, unlocking once and for all the mass of human capital...
...universities, ambitious young entrepreneurs are given capital and contacts by eager venture capitalists, charismatic young politicians are awarded power by voters, and basketball virtuosi are drafted to the NBA before the age of 20. But the less gifted are also well tended to in America. Investment in the mass of men—best achieved through investment in public infrastructure—has always been even more important than nurturing genius. All babies get vaccines, everyone has access to excellent roads and the Internet, and we all get clean water to drink. Young people have the hope that springs from...
...addition, constantly projecting our lives outward has the effect of diminishing our ability to engage in private contemplation and develop sincere personal thoughts—in other words, to be alone. Many seem to find solitude so uncomfortable that they feel compelled to share their thoughts with a mass audience. As I write this article, Facebook statuses inform me that one boy in my network “is napping” and another “is hungry.” Clearly, both are in reality dedicating time to grooming their technological image...
...Michael P. Jacobson, a former NYC Corrections commissioner and now director of the Vera Institute of Justice, there is a "historical moment" afoot now to abandon what he and others in the field call the failed policy of "mass incarceration" in favor of systematic and adequately funded re-entry efforts. But nowhere, he cautions, is there such a gap between what we should do - what we know to be the right thing to do policywise - and what we actually...