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LEAVING GEORGE TO ponder his own confused emotions and subsequently to plunge into a thicket of despondency and heartsickness, the two women scurry back to England where Lucy conveniently becomes engaged to an eminently suitable if terribly boring young bachelor, the aptly named Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day Lewis). Things would seem to be settled to everyone's satisfaction--Charlotte is safe in the knowledge that Mrs. Honeychurch (Rosemary Leach) remains blissfully unaware of her daughter's Italian involvement, Cecil is happy to have finally found someone who will put up with his psuedo-intellectual cultural arrivism, and Lucy is home...
...concern in the medical community and society at large that death in America is too often controlled by machines rather than nature. In a sharp departure from the past, when most Americans died at home, an estimated 80% now die in hospitals or nursing homes, often surrounded by a thicket of tubes and life-extending apparatus. Public opinion surveys suggest that most Americans fear and oppose this invasion of one of life's most private moments. Last year a Louis Harris poll of 1,254 adults found that 85% thought a terminally ill patient "ought to be able to tell...
...countries are being crushed by their debt burdens, the U.S. now believes that their only hope lies in faster economic growth. To achieve that goal, Washington thinks the IMF should enlist the help of the World Bank, a cash-rich agency that has largely remained aloof from the debt thicket. The Administration wants the bank to lend money more broadly and follow up the loans with long-term economic guidance for the debtors...
Regulations and Standards. Imagine how confused a professional football team would be if it faced a different set of game rules every time it played away from home. That is precisely the predicament of the world's exporters. Every nation has its own distinctive, and sometimes impenetrable, thicket of product standards, customs procedures, health and safety regulations and testing requirements...
People played bridge on the patio furniture, and in the mornings Fran Markham used to conduct an exercise class. The view looked down the channel to the Atlantic Ocean and across to Boot Key, a tangled thicket of low-lying mangrove. The harbor is one of the few protected anchorages on the ocean side of the Florida Keys; it has been a major stop for anyone cruising to the Bahamas...