Word: stroke
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Stories about medical breakthroughs are tough to resist. A wonder cure. A life restored at the stroke of a scalpel. That kind of article is exciting to writers and captures readers' imagination. This, however, is another kind of medical tale -- one that is more faithful to the way most advances truly take place. It is a story about making many small improvements in patients' treatment and care. It is a story of how each new step builds on the one before until their combined power starts to prolong lives or at least improve the quality of life that remains...
...each song is a self-contained vignette, distilling a moment or sometimes an entire life, traversing the emotional spectrum from unfettered joy to the abyss of abject despair. Sting's sonic palette has grown impressively eclectic: he illustrates each tale with a sure-handed array of dramatic colors -- a stroke of Spanish guitar here, a daub of blue trumpet there...
...spin doctors could have been cruel: one of Hollywood's biggest, baddest power brokers resurfaces as head of a rinky-dink cable outfit that hawks kitchen knives and costume jewelry. Yet the move was hailed as a stroke of visionary genius. QVC, Diller announced, would be the basis for a multimedia company poised to exploit all the new technology soon to transform TV: fiber optics and digital compression, which will multiply the number of channels available, and two-way capability, which will allow viewers to interact with the TV set. Home shopping, Diller promises, is just the first...
TALK ABOUT U-TURNS. WITH A PEN'S STROKE, PRESIdent Lech Walesa set in motion legal machinery that within weeks will transform Poland from a country with virtually no legal limits on abortion to one that possesses (next to Ireland) Europe's strictest laws on terminating pregnancies. Under the new measure, doctors can perform abortions only when there is proof of rape, incest, genetic abnormality in the fetus or an imminent threat to a mother's health. Noncomplying physicians are liable to two-year prison sentences...
...class action suits have affected hundreds of thousands with one stroke," Yanez said, "but my real work has been one to one--the individuals I work with on a day-to-day basis...