Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's emergency pavilion is almost a complete hospital in miniature. It has full X-ray facilities, its own laboratory, a suite of three operating rooms, a modern plaster room for prompt immobilization of fractures, a room for ear-nose-throat cases and dental emergencies. The only major demand not met on the spot is for "something in the eye": ophthalmic examinations require expensive and delicate equipment that would be uneconomic to duplicate, and patients are sent to the regular eye department on another floor...
Leach It Out. Early detection is difficult because parents rarely take a child to a doctor for the first, seemingly minor complaints. But prompt diagnosis is essential if modern treatments are to be effective. Professor Samuel P. Bessman of the University of Maryland found that disodium calcium ver-senate will selectively leach out the lead from a child's system without robbing him of precious calcium. Now doctors are trying combinations of versenate with urea for double action...
...into an argument for a tax cut: "This demonstrates again the point which I emphasized in my tax message to the Congress: rising tax receipts and eventual elimination of budget deficits depend on a healthy and rapidly growing economy. The most urgent economic business before the nation is a prompt and substantial reduction and revision of fed eral income taxes in order to speed up our economic growth...
...Warning. But Diem's intransigence troubled the U.S. In Saigon, U.S. embassy officials bluntly warned Diem that the U.S. would publicly condemn his treatment of the Buddhists unless he took prompt action to redress their grievances. Behind the U.S. threat was the fear that continued Buddhist discontent could cause passive resistance to government programs in the rural provinces where political unity is the key to victory in the war against the Communist Viet Cong...
Disappointment in the Federal government arose partly from a comparison with the government's prompt action in the University of Mississippi crisis last fall. Typical of many students' feelings were those of Uchenna C. Nwosu '64, who felt that the Administration had "shown some determination" in the Mississippi case but was not doing so now. The lack of real action now, he felt, made it unclear whether Kennedy's earlier acts had been sincere or merely "political opportunism to win liberal and Negro votes...