Word: resorted
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...acting opposite Sasha and Malia in the Christmas pageant. But if the experience of past Camp David chaplains is any guide, Cash won't necessarily have the opportunity to form a pastoral relationship with Obama. "We used to tell people our job was to run like a five-star resort," said Patrick McLaughlin, who was chaplain at Camp David from 2002 to 2005, in an interview with Religion News Service. "One of the things you value when you go on vacation is peace and quiet." His contact with Bush outside worship services, McLaughlin said, was "very little...
Brown's victory against the rebels could leave Mehta hanging on until next year for a chance to kick - or kick out - his MP. But the Prime Minister faces further bruising tests even before September, when Labour arrives in Brighton, a raffish seaside resort, for its annual conference, the traditional moment for coup attempts. And that's presuming Brown weathers two by-elections sparked by the expenses scandal. Michael Martin, a Labour MP serving in the party-neutral role of Speaker, or chair, of the Commons, steps down later this month. He was forced out after MPs' protests that...
...morning of Feb. 19, 1979, a Cessna 172 took off from Santa Monica, Calif., bound for the ski resort Big Bear. On board were Norman Ollestad, his father, his father's girlfriend Sandra and the pilot. Crossing the San Gabriel Mountains in heavy gray snow clouds, the plane failed to clear Ontario Peak. It crashed into the mountain at 8,200 ft. (2,500 m), just short of the summit, in the middle of a blizzard. Norman and Sandra survived the initial impact, but only Norman made it down off the mountain...
...crowding in, an overreliance on EDs means that less preventive medicine and less chronic-disease management is happening, which is part of the reason prevention is a central tenet of the current health-care-reform discussion. In other words, if the ED is the last, and sometimes only, resort for very sick people, then the health-care system as a whole is still very ill. "We can't hospitalize our way to human health," says Asplin. "One of the tragedies of the uninsured is that when they get to us, sometimes all we can do is admit them...
...Owned Las Vegas' first 24-hour veterinary clinic and managed hotels before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994. His political career was boosted by his well-connected stepfather, Michael Ensign, who ran the powerful Mandalay Resort Group...