Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scott Hamilton, who was a Jimmy Fund patient when he was two years old, will also perform this weekend. Hamilton was expected to die of a form of leukemia by the age of six. Now, at eighteen, he has already competed in the Men's Senior Championship...
...survey also indicated that 49 per cent of the school's alumni who are still actively practicing medicine spend most of their time in direct patient care, while only 11 per cent are primarily engaged in medical research...
Walter said the percentage of graduates involved in direct patient care is an indication of the type of education they received at the Medical School...
...Airport was the scene of an extraordinary meeting. Packed into the basement room 100 strong were the capos (captains), consiglieres (counselors), under bosses and bosses of the five New York Mafia clans that Gambino had ruled directly. Attending, too, were some honored guests from afar; for it was the patient Don Carlo who had maintained order among the 26 families of the national Mafia combine. His word was taken as final judgment on their affairs and squabbles. The problem: how to divide his unprecedented power...
...preponderance of political and military power, the national habit of debating issues in a rather fundamentalist way, and the quick fluctuations of mood that characterize American life have made it difficult for American policy formulators and leaders of opinion to be patient with smaller and weaker nations and to appreciate their problems. Jawaharlal Nehru once said to Adlai Stevenson: "There is no difficulty in choosing between right and wrong if the question appears in that sense. It does not always appear clearly in that way. Between white and black there are many shades of gray." Perhaps noticing grays comes easier...