Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Often, their patience is sorely tried. There are more people on the N.H.S. waiting list for hospitalization for non-emergency procedures than there are beds (468,000). Genuine emergencies get prompt attention, but the average delay for a tonsillectomy is 22 weeks, and many patients must wait a year for other elective surgery...
Despite the rules, Americans have committed a disturbing number of atrocities in Viet Nam-and prosecution has often been prompt. In the I Corps area last year, for example, seven Marines summarily hanged a Viet Cong suspect and shot two others to death. At a court-martial, one defense lawyer argued that his client had gone through "hell" after seeing Marine bodies "burned and tortured, some with their testicles cut off." Nevertheless, all seven Marines were convicted and imprisoned, one for life...
...second commonest form of the disease in women. Once, it was almost invariably fatal. Now, although 42,000 American women develop the disease each year, two-thirds are saved by surgery. Medical authorities are confident that virtually all the remaining cases could be cured by earlier detection and prompt treatment...
Moratorium volunteers canvassed Dorchester. East Boston, and Charlestown. Leafletting was done around Cambridge by both the Moratorium Committee and SMC. In some districts canvassers also circulated petitions asking for a prompt...
Committed to prompt extension of the 10% income tax surcharge. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long promised the Nixon Administration last summer that he would do everything he could to get it through. But Long's fellow Democrats were determined to bargain the surtax for tax reform, and the Louisianian could keep his promise to the President only by making another to them: in return for their votes on the surtax, he agreed to complete action on the House-passed reform bill and get it to the Senate floor...