Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though cost-cutting, staff attrition and "general tightening up." Harvard's affiliated hospitals insist that they can maintain their current level of patient services while staying within the bounds of the state's new hospital budget control law, administrators at eight of the 13 institutions said last week...
City officials and staff at the Cambridge nursing home have been battling overtime to improve patient care and facilities, following warnings last month from state health inspectors about violations in nursing care, safety and sanitation conditions there...
...power and movement in here, and the change has been phenomenal," said Penelope Woody, acting assistant director of nursing. Woody is one of several administrators regularly employed by Cambridge Hospital who have been working at Neville Manor since early February in an attempt to improve patient care there...
...triumph of brains, bluster and bravado. When the company needed money and the banks dithered, he threatened to go into bankruptcy. When he needed pay cuts and the union protested, he warned that he would shut plants. When Chrysler could not pay its bills, he persuaded suppliers to be patient. It now seems a plausible bet?not yet even money but not 100 to 1 either?that lacocca's company will survive as No. 3 against its behemoth competitors, General Motors and Ford, and occasionally even threaten them. Of course, the tougher battle is the one that all U.S. carmakers...
...Frau Freud's response: "We're middle-class clean Jews. That is why I ask you to wipe your feet." The master's cures are just as brisk and effective, the ideal length for docudrama. "You don't want to die," Freud assures a patient, "you want to get back into your mother." From the couch comes the reply, "You're sure?" The doctor is, and one visit later, so is his patient...