Word: operationalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dr. Rinat Akchurin, 50, the heart surgeon who may have the daunting honor of operating on President Boris Yeltsin, was nowhere to be found last week. His answering machine invited callers to leave a message; his colleagues said he was resting. And by late last week, despite its new commitment...
There developed, then, a kind of schizoid world in which I sought to explain how and why research was in two different areas. Concepts, like time, won over: the indistinction of things legible and visible in both film and early modern writing. The book as a creation of what Walter...
The MTA is trying to prepare its passengers for this reduction in subway safety with large posters in subway cars that announce that the cryptic "OPTO" will soon be featured on some subway lines. The acronym OPTO is spelled in huge letters; underneath, in smaller characters, the poster informs passengers...
We don't like to hear stories about physicians who have devoted a third of their lives to education and training being forced to get permission to do a necessary operation from an insurance clerk staring at a computer screen at the other end of an 800 number.
Yeltsin's press handlers hailed his interview as a historic break with the Soviet past, when doddering Kremlin leaders were described as having head colds until they suddenly expired. Last month the same officials indignantly denied a TIME report that Yeltsin might go abroad for surgery. Yeltsin's announcement was...