Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest medical centers in the world," says Jane H. Corlette, Harvard's director of government relations for health policy. "It would really be a shame if these extraordinary organisms that do teaching, health care service and education were basically destroyed because of some shift in reimbursement mechanisms...
...When people don't have insurance, it makes for bad health care," says Corlette. "Women who get pregnant don't go to sex doctors or get the appropriate vaccinations. We are the only Western democracy that does not have universal coverage. It does seem a shame...
...Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, suggests that people should strive to keep the perils posed by dioxin in perspective and remember other threats that are more easily averted. "Phantom risks and real risks compete not only for our resources but also for our attention," Graham observes. "It's a shame when a mother worries about toxic chemicals, and yet her kids are running around unvaccinated and without bicycle helmets...
Cinema: Some independent films put blockbusters to shame...
...teenager's suicide, especially its less obvious indicators. The deepening silence of the patient Slaby calls Chad, for example, or the perpetual weeping of Sarah; John's eerie paintings, or Bret's getting himself kicked off the hockey team. Often, Slaby writes, depression is exacerbated when a youth feels shame over a subject that is taboo within the family: homosexuality, an unwanted pregnancy, the family's unacknowledged history of mental illness...