Word: shuns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like many big-city hospitals, Chicago's St. Frances X. Cabrini Hospital has been declining with the neighborhood. As white middle-class families left their sturdy brick houses for the suburbs, poor black and Spanish-speaking families moved into the residential sections surrounding the hospital. Doctors began to shun the area, partly because of crime, partly because 60% of its residents were on welfare. By 1970, Cabrini's hospital beds were only 68% full and the hospital was $1,000,000 in debt...
...speech to Mexican students in December 1972, he encourages the students not to abandon their duty to their fellow citizens. He explains that it is difficult to retain socialist beliefs amid the corrosive effect of capitalist society, but he expresses his confidence that they will be able to shun the status-seeking temptations of middle-class life...
This astonishing insight into Richard Nixon's private musings on whether he should resign the presidency over Watergate came not long ago from someone who should know: his younger daughter. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, 24, is the only Nixon who has refused to shun public exposure in the wake of the scandal and has chosen instead to carry her father's case forcefully to the public...
...consult has some professional qualifications-for instance, that he is a reputable physician, psychologist or marriage counselor. The patient should also verify that the clinic has a good reputation, that treatment will be confidential, and that no unrealistic promises of cure are made. He also advises patients to shun clinics advertising in the yellow pages or in cheap magazines. But the only real solution, he points out, is to shut down the street-corner clinics. That goal, he admits, could hardly be accomplished through lawsuits by injured clients. "Who would want to testify that he was impotent?" Masters asks...
...Worldwide operating net rose 12%, to $477 million, exceeding ITT's average increase for the past dozen years. Last week ITT announced that in the first quarter of 1973 operating profits rose 11% over a year earlier, to $105.6 million. Few if any customers were moved to shun ITT's myriad businesses-which include, among many others, running the Sheraton hotels, baking Wonder Bread and operating the U.S.-Soviet hot line. Even unfavorable Government action has turned to ITT's benefit. In the first quarter, profits from sale of stock in Canteen Corp. and Avis rent...