Word: treating
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...organizers, that required a special sensitivity. Lecturers had to remind themselves not to treat the Russians like graduate students...
...half a dozen other documentaries on American history (Brooklyn Bridge, Huey Long), Burns mixes archival footage with commentary from assorted experts -- sportswriters, ex-players and other students of the game. Ty Cobb once called baseball "something like a war"; these box-seat philosophers, shot in contemplative, dreamy-eyed closeup, treat it as something like a religion. "Baseball is a beautiful thing," says sportscaster Bob Costas. "The way the field fans out. The choreography of the sport. The pace and rhythm of it." Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York and a ^ former minor leaguer, praises baseball's celebration of community, symbolized...
Even such seemingly prosaic but once deadly infections as staph and strep have become much harder to treat as they've acquired resistance to many standard antibiotics. Both microbes are commonly transmitted from patient to patient in the cleanest of hospitals, and they are usually cured routinely. But one strain of hospital-dwelling staph can now be treated with only a single antibiotic -- and public health officials have no doubt that the germ will soon become impervious to that one too. Hospitals could become very dangerous places to go -- and even more so if strep also develops universal resistance...
...parents, Jimmy and Roma, lived in Parkmore, a tree-lined Johannesburg suburb -- and they accepted apartheid. Kevin, however, | like many of his generation, soon began to question it openly. "The police used to go around arresting black people for not carrying their passes," his mother recalls. "They used to treat them very badly, and we felt unable to do anything about it. But Kevin got very angry about it. He used to have arguments with his father. 'Why couldn't we do something about it? Why didn't we go shout at those police...
...Plaza de Armas, the 44-year-old computer programmer joins a foreigner at a garden bar. Sipping on a fine, aged rum -- a rare treat -- he pours out the familiar Cuban litany of despair. He eats no breakfast or lunch and cannot find milk for his 10-year-old daughter. His car has no gas, his home no electricity. When he walks down Obispo at night, even the cheap tourist souvenirs tantalize him. He sips more rum. "People drink here to an extent you can't imagine," he says. "They don't go to work anymore. There is no hope...