Word: uncommonness
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Compared with government crises in the past, the 19 summit participants labored with uncommon zeal. Outside, chauffeurs of the 19 Alfa 2000s and Fiat 130s lined up along the villa's graveled drive, huddled over radios listening to the Italy-Argentina World Cup football match. Inside, like so many American officials unhappily missing a World Series, the political leaders gathered round a brocade-covered table in the Giulio Romano Room, so named for the artist who painted its frescoes. They did not even break for dinner-an uncommon sacrifice for Italian politicians-but had it boxed in by Rosati...
...some cases, our simply crass and selfish interests." Like Ramsey, he questions the slogan's implication that "dignity will reign if only we can push back officious doctors, machinery and hospital administrators." Indeed, reflects Kass, "a death with dignity may turn out to be something rare and uncommon, like a life with dignity...
...disease was so uncommon that when between 1957 and 1961 eighty-seven cases suddenly appeared in Johannesburg, South Africa, the medical world signalled a mysterious epidemic of major proportions. Physicians in the area were dumbfounded. Pathologists and epidemiologists began an extensive investigation into the factors that might be common to each case. When all the data had been gathered, a startling conclusion became evident: that each of the eighty-seven rare tumors had grown in people who had been exposed to South African asbestos...
...world. People die of hunger in sub-Saharan Africa, brutally and unnecessarily, every day. Portugal's attempts to prevent its African colonies' gaining independence involve warfare as sustained and as all-encompassing as the war that swept Indochina. And torture of political prisoners, even U.S.-financed torture, isn't uncommon enough to cause much of a stir. It goes on more or less indiscriminately and without potent opposition (from Greece to Chile, where the followers of Guru Maharaj Ji joined the list of proscribed last week...
...suffering major nonfatal postoperative complications. There are risks even at some of the university hospitals offering the operation. Though operating room mortality may be less than 5%, complications such as myocardial infarction (the classic heart attack), brain damage, hemorrhage, kidney failure or closure of the bypass are not uncommon. Despite these risks, Russek noted the tendency of some doctors to perform the operation as a "preemptive procedure" on patients who have not yet experienced angina or who suffer only mild symptoms...