Word: transients
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...doctors, clinics, medical labs and pharmacies that hauled in fat Government payments and fed kick backs to one another for unnecessary or fictional patient examinations, clinic visits, tests and prescriptions. The investigation was maddeningly difficult because both patients and personnel at the ghetto health centers tended to be transient, and the fraudulent paper work involved was hard to track in the disarray of federal and state bureaucracies. But Skinner quickly became convinced that he had "just scratched the surface." So 15 months ago, he created the Governmental Frauds Unit-first federal effort of its kind in the nation...
...Arabs believe that Israel is transient. It is here today but will not be here in 50 or 80 years. The Arabs have a great belief in absorption. In time, the Jews will be absorbed ... like a sponge," he said...
...retrenches, closing the club at two now instead of four a.m. The lavish vases of fresh-cut flowers--crisp white carnations and crowds of blue irises the color of twilight--are gone. The bare walls have emerged from behind them, triumphant. Heavy and silent, they tolerate the denim-bedecked transient dancers and ache from their loud stream of music. The smaller inanimate objects--little glass tables, sculptured plastic chairs, ashtrays that bear no name--huddle in groups, almost afraid: their conspiracy against the walls is over. 15 Lansdowne Street is waiting to become a warehouse again...
Bernard Lown, professor of Cardiology, who headed the sudden death study, said yesterday his team identified "transient risk factors" that stem from emotional response to fear and stress...
...subjects - those mellow distances which, a century and a half later, seem like the never-never land of Arcady - veils it from us. It amounted to a prediction of impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature, to shew its effect in the most striking manner, to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...