Word: steeling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from a high of 22% last summer, is still above the 10% level, which was where it stood when Thatcher took office. For all its efforts at cutting public spending, the government overran its targeted deficit by more than $10 billion, largely because of unemployment compensation and bailouts of steel and other public-sector industries. The glum assessment of one Tory economist: "Thatcherism is dead...
...this month that companies flush with oil profits have sought to use that money to buy mineral and mining firms. Standard Oil of California bid $4 billion for the 80% it does not already own of Amax, which has vast reserves of molybdenum, a metal used to make special steel alloys, and nickel. Seagram Co., the whisky distiller, which sold $2.3 billion worth of Southwest oil and gas properties last month, has offered more than $2 billion for St. Joe Minerals, a producer of lead and zinc...
Patients have long been aware that doctors sometimes kill as well as cure. Doctors have long insisted that medically caused mishaps do not occur in significant numbers. Now two medical research teams in Boston have challenged that assumption. One team, led by Geriatrics Specialist Knight Steel, found that out of 815 patients admitted during five months of 1979 to a hospital at the Boston University Medical Center, 290 suffered almost 500 medical mishaps. More than 200 of these complications were due to drugs. An additional 175 resulted from other treatments or diagnostic tests. These mishaps contributed to the death...
Couch attributes surgery-related mishaps to clearly avoidable errors by doctors who were too quick to operate, too confident of their skills and techniques, and too concerned with doing currently fashionable procedures. By contrast, Steel feels it is often impossible to assign blame for complications that occur among general medical patients, and that this is even more true for the many elderly patients with multiple ailments in the study. The complex of diagnostic tests and drugs used makes it difficult to isolate any one cause of trouble. Says Steel: "I don't really know for certain...
Sleepy, nervous "good mornings" echo in the strangely quiet locker room, and you steel yourself for the still-cold March air over the river. The rest of your crew arrives and the coxswain organizes you for taking out the shell: Four-man shells today. Your bare feet welcome the warmth of the sun-bathed dock, and the boat slides into the water easily...