Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concessions are typical of the patient moderation that Gowon, 31, has pursued. He prevented violence by not forcing union on the resentful Ibos. Despite a drop in foreign investment in Nigeria, he has kept the economy growing: exports exceeded imports by a record $82 million in the first nine months of 1966, and a predicted decline in employment never came. Nigeria's efficient, British-trained bureaucracy still provides most government services. And even though 6,000 Ibos quit their railroad jobs, Gowon has kept the freight trains on schedule, partly by hiring white engineers...
...vessel. Back home, another old salt, Captain Alan Villiers, who skippered a replica of the Mayflower from England to Massachusetts in 1957, thought that this was tempting providence too far. "I have begged Chichester not to attempt it," said Villiers. "God has been very good to him and very patient. This is asking too much...
...Montreal and Quebec. But no problem had been encountered in Montreal. What was the difference be tween the two brewing processes? In Quebec, an extra dose of a cobalt salt had been added to build and hold the beer's foamy head. When? One month before the first patient's symptoms appeared. Though the amount of cobalt was well below legal levels, and though no conclusive cause-effect proof could be made, Dow dumped $1,260,000 worth of the suds into the sewer and eliminated the cobalt from the beer's ingredients. The incidence of cases...
...elderly patients, they have difficulty understanding the workings of the program, said Rouse. He told of a dialogue with a patient...
...Another patient, Rouse said, told him he "couldn't understand what Medicare...