Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crops. In the booming 1970s they added another 180 acres and rented 530 more. Farming began to sour for them in 1979, just as tragedy struck. They lost two sons, 16 and 20, to cancer. Their sons' medical costs came on top of farming setbacks. Still, creditors were patient as the family fell $100,000 in debt. Recalls Steffes: "The people in town really trusted me. The feed dealer carried us along. So did the gas dealer. Everybody helped...
...Administration obviously doesn't give a cocklebur for rural America," stormed Democratic Senator James Exon of Nebraska. E. ("Kika") de la Garza, the Texas Democrat who heads the House Agriculture Committee, sneered that what Stockman was really saying was "Let's cut off the arms and legs of the patient. Then he'll be 30 lbs. lighter and less of a burden." Farm Belt Republicans were equally outraged. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, in a letter to Stockman, asked him to "please refrain from sermonizing on the free market, which seems most hypocritical from a Government that has been...
...first step is usually to get the patient talking. "One of the main jobs is to bring the patient out of his or her shell," says Inge Kemp Genefke, a doctor and head of the Copenhagen center. Through therapy, we have to prove to the patient that whatever decision was made under torture would not have changed the end result of the torture...
Harvard attained its early bulge by the same method it rode all night to victory: a patient offense and lightsout shooting...
Chlamydia is so widespread that some doctors have begun administering the appropriate antibiotics to suspect patients even before the results of diagnostic tests are in. For example, because 40% of women and 20% of men with gonorrhea also have chlamydia, the CDC's Cates recommends that anyone with a confirmed case of gonorrhea be treated for chlamydia as well. Schachter suggests the same policy for women with PID. "You can't just sit around and wait for a lab diagnosis," he says. "The patient could wind up sterile...