Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some neighbor begin trying to pay the rent by bootlegging, and established members of the trade are sure to notify the police rather than allow the newcomer an unfair business advantage. The two policemen who patrol the area on one shift pass the word to the two on the next shift, and the new bootlegger suddenly has a hefty overhead: each of three shifts...
Everywhere he went, the visitor smelled ether, a sure sign of outdated anesthesia techniques. Disposable products such as linens and syringes were unknown, though they are in wide use in the U.S. "Diagnostic work is primitive," said Hall. "Xray equipment is antiquated. Blood-chemistry analysis is inefficient." The leisurely, informal pace was astounding. At a 500-bed hospital, ten to 15 operations a day are normal in Russia-compared with 35 to 50 in the U.S. At Moscow's Neurosurgical Institute, the entire staff turned out to hear Dr. Hall lecture on the air-powered drills and bone saws...
There are, to be sure, some compensating factors. The modern drugs and vaccines familiar in the U.S. are also used by the Soviets, and no available statistics suggest that their death rate is unusually high. Though their hospitals may be hampered by a lack of technology, patient care does not suffer as much as it might. There is none of the doctor-nurse shortage that now plagues the U.S. Nonetheless, Dr. Hall had reason to be distressed, for what he had been shown was billed as the best that Soviet medicine had to offer...
...figures are available, he is confident Harvard students scored well on the draft test and that this will probably protect them. According to draft officials, an undergraduate who is going to school full-time, making normal progress towards a degree and has not interrupted his education is almost sure to get a deferment provided he is in the upper half of his class or has done well on the test...
...have to improve on offense, too," he added. "Sure, we scored 30 points, but we could have scored more. We fumbled six times...