Word: plumbed
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Vacations were short and simple for Mary Kay Conlon and Chip Plumb in their fast-track corporate days. "One phone call, no planning, never more than a week," says Conlon. "We'd just plop on the beach somewhere." But to celebrate their early retirement last year, the Evanston, Ill., couple rented a spacious Paris apartment for six months. "We always regretted that neither of us had done a junior year abroad," says Conlon, 48, a former health-care-industry executive who was eager to immerse herself in another language and culture...
George W. Bush has always been suspicious, even contemptuous, of introspection. "I don't spend a lot of time looking in the mirror," he once bragged, "except when I comb my hair." Last week, though, he suddenly yielded to reporters' endless, and hitherto fruitless, efforts to plumb his moods. Days after aides had taken pains to tell reporters the President had not expressed frustration in a meeting about Iraq, Kelly O'Donnell of NBC pressed, "But are you frustrated...
...medical decisions - whether to amputate a limb or move a brain-damaged victim - get short shrift. HBO missed potentially dramatic scenes of those debates. A long, jazzy saxophone solo by a soldier reflects the melancholy mood of patients. But, despite a few emotional scenes, the film failed to plumb the mindset of casualties...
...Peanut Butter and Juliet”—a transposition of Shakespeare’s play into the American South with “two warring families at opposing truck stops”—to “The Life and Many Deaths of Mister Plumb,” Mitnick’s work is saturated with his distinctive style. In “Peanut Butter and Juliet,” the antagonism between the peanut butter sandwich and the jelly sandwich vendors ends in the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. An English concentrator...
...more control patients have over their own care-the more they know, the more involved they are in the design of their care-the better. We haven't even begun to plumb the real potential of patients who have been taught how to become their own physicians (to the extent that they want to). Despite the rhetoric, most people can't even get access to their own medical records, and it's often next to impossible to find data on how one's own hospital or physician performs compared with others. Some people fear that, given choices, patients will...