Word: patiently
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...palindrome, a word or sentence that reads the same backwards and forwards. Starting with the most familiar type of palindrome, at the letter-level ("Able was I ere I saw Elba" is the best known of these), Kim goes on to write about word-palindromes (his example is "So patient a doctor to doctor a patient so") and, most fascinating of all, phonetic palindromes, which sound the same run backwards through a tape-recorder ("we revere you" and "ominous cinema" are Kim's two examples...
...attitude that it is "just a waste of the taxpayers' money." Unlike Third Nail, which is open to anyone with a need, many centers get accredited for Blue Cross and Blue Shield payments, enabling them to charge high weekly fees. Through its Outreach program, the project provides free out-patient drug counseling worth $150,000 in working hours...
What has not suffered from Reaganomics is the low-cost, low-effectiveness methadone treatment centers. Seven out-patient facilities in the state dispense the synthetic, which is designed to remove gradually the user's need for heroin. "We have had a good success rate with methadone," drug officials say. Most often measured in terms of a facility's utilization rate, success comes easily for a methodone treatment program. A methodone center tends to create its own demand. "If we were a methadone service," Bill McCue, director of project Third Nail, says, "we'd have lines of people down the block...
...what some might call a lazy man's schedule gave Sadat a chance to think, and that made an enormous difference to the world. It took a lot of patient walking and pipe chewing to reach his crucial decisions. His longtime counselor Sayed Marei, who was wounded in last week's shooting, once observed that, "he takes a long time to make up his mind, but once he makes it up, it never changes...
DIED. Dexter M. Bullard, 83, psychiatrist and medical director from 1931 to 1969 of the Chestnut Lodge mental hospital in Rockville, Md., which pioneered in the use of psychoanalytic treatment for psychotic patients, instead of custodial care; in Rockville. Chestnut Lodge, founded in 1910 by Bullard's father, Dr. Ernest Bullard, was the setting for the 1964 novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, by onetime Patient Joanne Greenberg...