Word: pats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone knows that profits and good care are not compatible" is how Pat McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, explains the persistence of nursing-home abuses. But a recent spate of multimillion-dollar jury awards to nursing-home residents and their families because of poor care may force some homes to improve. A California woman won a $95 million verdict after the jury was told how she broke her shoulder and shattered her hip (last month a judge cut the award to $3 million), and a jury awarded $6.3 million to the family of a Florida...
...Reported by James Carney, Chandrani Ghosh and J.F.O. McAllister/Washington, Julie Grace/Valmeyer and Pat Dawson/Rimini
...singer's name, the record label and where the album can be bought. Though the label does not pay for airplay, the commercials (which run only when the song is played) are an obvious incentive for the station to play the records more often. Capitol Nashville CEO Pat Quigley says he's so pleased with the results that he intends to expand his campaign to 100 markets...
...from the "little fellow," but the Tramp is always ambivalent and many-sided. Funniest when he is most afraid, mincing and smirking as he attempts to placate those immune to pacification, constantly susceptible to reprogramming by nearby bodies or machines, skidding around a corner or sliding seamlessly from a pat to a shove while desire and doubt chase each other across his face, the Tramp is never unself-conscious, never free of calculation, never anything but a hard-pressed if often divinely lighthearted member of an endangered species, entitled to any means of defense he can devise. Faced with...
...normal amount: two swoops on the hand, pat each cheek...