Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mandated rules that tilt the system toward expensive in-patient care could squeeze far more bang from the buck. (Under the present system, for example, many veterans cannot receive treatment for hypertension as outpatients. They have to wait to be admitted as in-patients for a heart attack or stroke.) But while the House has passed eligibility reform, the Senate...
...recounts intimate what she was like when she was younger. Traces remain of the imperious manner, regal bearing and caustic wit, but they are interspersed with instances of memory loss, sudden fits of tears and humiliating moments of incontinence. At the close of the act, she suffers a stroke. In the second act, the full character is fleshed out, as B and C reappear in 1950s and 1920s dress, respectively. The dowdyish assistant has become the sophisticated, fiftyish A, full of confidence; the cynical young lawyer is now the naive and romantic 26-year-old A. While a mannequin with...
...SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO, Helen Miller struck another unlikely blow for organized labor last summer. Miller, a member of the service-employees union who spends seven hours a day tending to a tube-fed stroke victim, fought for and won a change in Illinois law that raised the hourly wages for state-paid, home-health-care aides from $3.35 to $5. As the head of volunteer action for the union local, Miller was the first nurse's aide to testify on behalf of the bill. Now she spends her free time organizing home-health-care workers to demand medical benefits...
With that single stroke, Gates captured one of the world's great collections of documentary images: more than 16 million drawings, artworks, news photographs and other illustrations, including such familiar and haunting treasures as Mathew Brady's Civil War pictures and the photos of Rosa Parks' lonely bus ride. The deal immediately raised questions about whether Gates, who has near monopoly control of the PC software industry and is moving aggressively into computer networking, is planning to extend his dominion into graphic images as well...
...only his second tournament, sophomore Alex Gonzalez played consistently well for the Crimson, finishing with 79 strokes on both days to come to a 158 total, one stroke behind Radtke for the top Harvard place...