Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unsmooth jazz has grown restive again. Recent months have seen a number of albums push the boundaries of the music, making thoughtful attempts at mixing jazz with contemporary pop or, even more promisingly, world music. And so on one hand you have woodwind player Don Byron cutting Nu Blaxploitation (Blue Note), an album of overtly political funk and rap; it's not an entirely felicitous concept, but what a treat to hear Byron's clarinet--the fuddy-duddy instrument of Woody Allen!--snaking in and out of dark, fertile electric grooves. On the other hand you have saxophonist David Murray...
...Baker arrives, CPR is still going on; the code team has shoved a tube down Marilyn's throat to pump air into her lungs. Baker prays with Del Castilho as the doctors push epinephrine and atropine through an IV. Briefly, there seems hope of stabilization, and Yopp is wheeled to the medical ICU. But two hours later, after multiple IV infusions, resident Timm Dickfeld takes one last turn at CPR, punishing Yopp's chest almost savagely, then stops. "Call the code," says someone. "Call it." Dickfeld finally accedes. "Over," he says. He makes a chopping gesture. Yopp is dead...
Christina is a cool, sturdy lady who says she has a pretty high tolerance for pain, but by 1:15, after hours of labor and 15 minutes of pushing, she is exhausted. Husband Kevin and nurse Mickie Cothren are each holding one of her legs, helping her push. Dr. Ira Smith pokes his head in the room; this will be his third birth in as many hours. "Pitiful pushin'!" he hollers, urging her on. By 2:04 she is groaning hugely. She has her hands clasped behind her knees, working hard, straining like a Russian Olympic weight lifter...
...hard start to his plan has the hospital cutting $30 million annually from its $654 million costs for at least three years. It gets more controversial after that. His real gamble is to push Duke into a range of new businesses--all aimed at creating something like a health-care shopping mall, with everything from its own HMO to primary-care clinics, retirement communities and hospice care, for a good part of the surrounding population...
Mortgage rates recently hit 30-year lows, and the Fed's interest-rate cut last week helped push the average 30-year fixed rate down to 6.6%. Loans may get cheaper still, but don't wait before refinancing: many lenders now charge no points or fees. If you're likely to move (as the average American does every 12 years), you can save with a hybrid loan that's fixed for three to 10 years, and then adjusts...