Word: shunts
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...time on the footplate--where the fireman and driver stand, stoking the boiler, firing up the engine and managing the controls. In follow-up courses, groups of four students strive to acquire enough skill to drive the locomotive. This involves learning to clean, oil and light up the engine, shunt tracks, couple and uncouple cars--and brake, no easy task. John Sinclair, 54, technical director of a Bedfordshire computer firm, was "quite frightened" during an intermediate course with Severn Valley Railway because even at 25 m.p.h., the locomotive rattles and shakes. So pleased was he by the "big high...
...movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good--up to a point--on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and--oh yes, oh help--Palmer Joss...
...relatively small core of solid substance." The movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good -- up to a point -- on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens) needed to penetrate our newly defined outer limits; and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey), a sort of New Age Billy Graham who has wormed his way into the high councils of state as spiritual...
...free at last from the financial pressure to order more tests and procedures, free from the need to practice defensive medicine, free to do the best as they see it for their patients? Or will HMO patients find themselves in long lines for short visits, confronting bureaucratic "gatekeepers" who shunt them to a small number of overworked doctors who are paid extra to skimp on tests and operations...
...night before the scheduled shunt surgery, a doctor arrived in Elizabeth's hospital room and removed so much thick, infected fluid from her brain that he asked to postpone the operation for a few days. But 12 hours later, when he returned to do another tap, he could barely find any fluid, and it was totally clear. The doctor was baffled. Elizabeth was back home two days later. "We now know it was one of those lesser miracles that presage a greater miracle," her grandfather says...