Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprising. But the Governor, for his part, is also giving serious consideration to the proposals his colleagues are submitting to him. At least one acting agency head, dismayed by what he found, will recommend "sweeping changes" in the offices he visited. Another department head, Martin Walsh of general services, came away from a month in juvenile services -- "an area that was a real void for me" -- eager to help that overburdened agency compete for what he calls "the scarce bucks...
...contacted by phone and presented with the same hypothetical patient, a baby boy with a 102 degrees fever. For a child under two months, such a fever can signal a life- threatening infection. Nearly 30% of doctors responding did not ask the child's age and so failed to recommend that the youngster even come in for an exam. Richard Kessel, executive director of New York State's Consumer Protection Board, which is looking into the service, notes that patients may be spending money on what they think is a final answer, when "many will still have...
...What course would you now recommend regarding Iraq...
...stuffed animals, could also cause fatal rebreathing. In addition, the Missouri doctors' findings are sure to fuel the controversy surrounding a question that should have been answered long ago: What is the safest position in which to put a newborn down to sleep? Pediatricians in some European countries recommend placing infants on their side, while most American doctors still opt for the abdomen. Kemp's advice to parents: "Don't put your baby in a position where something soft can cover its face...
...insinuations of Kitty Kelley satisfied some readers and repelled others. A third group could not get enough backstairs gossip, and its members are the target audience for A House of Secrets (Birch Lane; 237 pages; $18.95). The novel has two things to recommend it: a plausible first-person tone of wounded innocence, and an author named Patti Davis -- better known as the daughter of Nancy D. Reagan. The narrator is one Carla Lawton, who grows up in California with few friends and one opponent: her mother. Rachel Lawton lies compulsively and attempts to control every aspect of her child...