Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reducing the areas in which he is free to make even small decisions. Woods is already treated as though he suffers some undiagnosed illness. Friends become nervous about how to approach him or what to say. People ask how he is, with the concern they would show for a patient who is in the hospital. "Donald" is discussed in the third person, sometimes even in the past tense. A friend's affectionate newspaper piece about him in the Rand Daily Mail read more like an obituary than a feature. a man There is appear something comfortable and malevolent...
However, Marrow said, the NLRB did not think union supporters would interfere with patient care in their discussions...
Dean Epps should make explicit his intentions regarding the committee. The committee has great potential, but it can be effective only if all the interested student groups understand its structure and endorse its goals before it begins to meet. Hopefully, both Epps and the minority organizations be patient and accomodate each other's positions so that the Committee on Race Relations can be launched from solid ground...
...nursing-home patient summed it up: "If we had worked longer, we would have been able to buy more and thus create more jobs. To mandate the retirement of the able, experienced older worker is like burning all the encyclopedias in the world...
...there cannot-and that is why Shaffer stalls his inevitable denouement by padding the film's doctor-patient scenes with flashbacks that detail Alan's past. Despite a nude appearance by Jenny Agutter and cameo performances by such fine actors as Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews and Eileen Atkins, Equus' digressions are little more than excuses to fetch popcorn...