Word: prolonged
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...Japanese chocolate maker whose 101 products generated sales of $556 million in 1998. Compare that to U.S.-based Hershey, which generated $4.4 billion in sales with just 78 products. Or take health care: The Japanese government's generous hospital reimbursement criteria practically encourage health-care providers to prolong illness rather than attack it, dragging the average acute care hospital stay in Japan to 24 days, compared with 11 days in Germany and six in America. Financial services are also rife with inefficiencies: Life insurance is largely sold not by financial professionals but by brigades of old ladies, often part-timers...
...rate each year, Lewis said that the problem is no longer how scientifically to fight the disease. Medicines to drastically reduce the mother-to-infant transmission rate are inexpensive to produce and easy to administer, he said. It would be similarly simple, he added, to administer drugs that can prolong the lives of people already infected...
...Island is past. Today's immigrants are coming to the third most populous nation in the world. America is unable to absorb any more immigrants. What's more, some of these people represent a groundswell of cultural change that their homelands obviously need. Enabling them to emigrate will only prolong and encourage their parent nations' continued failures. JAMES WALTON Davis, Calif...
...significant finding that may ultimately prolong the life of heart attack victims, a team of researchers at the Harvard Medical School’s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital have found that implanting certain stem cells into areas of the heart damaged by heart attacks may stimulate blood vessel regrowth...
When asked about whether the College will prolong library hours and Thanksgiving breaks, Kirby replied, “I have no idea...