Word: modicums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hospitals in which basic elements of public health are ignored serve as vectors for epidemics. There never would have been an Ebola epidemic in Kikwit had there not been a looted, decrepit hospital into which the first handful of cases were admitted. Once inside a facility that lacked any modicum of hygienic practices the virus spread rapidly, first claiming large numbers of health care workers, and then their patients...
...think with all those votes on the line our concerns would be addressed with a modicum of gravity. Listened to. Consulted. You'd think the candidates would be lining up at our doors to showcase their policies on health care, education, Social Security. But you'd be wrong. Instead of crunching our numbers, the candidates are kissing our babies. They're wearing earth tones and soft pastel ties. They're going on "Oprah," for God's sake...
...Fire is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it or listening to someone else read it aloud requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...Fire" is not a Hollywood summer blockbuster, although its weekend grosses will probably be announced in a breathless press release. It is a book, a really long book, with no moving images, sound track or joysticks. Reading it, or listening to someone else read it aloud, requires a modicum of silence, the exact antithesis of all the bells and whistles and clarions that heralded its arrival...
...Pennsylvania, have their way, we'll be able to sleep a little easier in our brave new world. Caplan advocates establishing some kind of confidentiality law that would prohibit unauthorized testing and the free exchange of genetic information - a safeguard that would ostensibly provide each of us with a modicum of privacy...