Word: plum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American patients, none could have been declared brain dead by the criteria set up in British or American codes. Doctors must first exclude certain conditions such as drug overdoses, which may mimic death but are reversible. Indeed, there is some confusion over the American cases cited. Neurologist Fred Plum of New York Hospital, who was interviewed for the program, stresses that the patient he discussed was never officially declared brain dead...
...alive can have a flat EEG, suggesting no brain activity. Moreover, even inanimate matter can appear to have life. A doctor once wired a plate of Jell-O in an intensive care unit and proved it was "alive"; the electrodes picked up impulses from equipment in the room. Says Plum: "EEGS are done more as a reassuring step to doctor and family than because they are any more foolproof than good clinical observation...
...tells the story with such mastery of his craft, and such freshness. Like the capitalist he caricatures, he leaves nothing to chance, but leaves one struggling to plum a multi-layered text whose overtones expand and recede in too many directions. His extensive philosophic dialogues over-whelm the characters who engage in them so earnestly (yet so easily...
...puritan midsummer's holiday." In 1681, when President Oakes perished shortly before Commencement, the authorities seeking a sober ceremony felt compelled to restrict students to a provision of one gallon of wine per man. Despite that one prohibitive graduation, the tradition of imbibement was propagated, climaxing in the "Plum cake scandal" of 1693, when kill-joy President Mather outlawed the tainted pastries, deeming the custom "dishonourable to the Colledge." Needless to say, in spite of various fines imposed by Mather, the tradition survives in one form or another...
...reputation-making opportunity, is more often shunned in favor of the quieter, more civilized capital. The International Communication Agency (the revamped U.S. Information Agency) recently had job openings in both Buenos Aires and Vancouver. Not so many years ago, the Argentine post would have been considered a plum, the Canadian one a backwater bore. This time around, however, there were several dozen applicants for Vancouver and none for Buenos Aires. The reasons: Vancouver is safe and relatively cheap; Buenos Aires has sporadic political violence and triple-digit inflation...