Word: vast
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assisted-living residents (who are typically much healthier than their nursing-home counterparts) had been hospitalized in the previous year, a rate higher than for residents of nursing homes. And according to the report, most assisted-living staff do not have a basic understanding of the aging process: the vast majority thought, for example, that incontinence, confusion and depression were normal signs of aging rather than potentially reversible conditions. "There's absolutely no doubt that these facilities are more dangerous than nursing homes," says Karen Love, executive director of the Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living...
Kolya is not the only therapist making the rounds of the vast hospital complex at UCLA. There's also a poodle named Platinum, a pug named Egor and a greyhound named Aladdin--not to mention the eight golden retrievers, four black Labs, two German shepherds and several mutts. Canine candy-striping--which began in the 1980s as just another recreational activity for patients, like clown visits to children's hospitals or barbershop-quartet appearances at nursing homes--has evolved into an important and fast-growing component of modern patient care...
...bought in India. McCartney and Mills endured a few rough years before meeting. He admitted he contemplated suicide following wife Linda's death from breast cancer in 1998; Mills was in a freak motorcycle accident that took her leg in 1993. Together they have overcome an age difference almost vast enough to impress Robert Evans...
...credit card and some personal information--like most e-commerce sites. But in May, it made the switch to Passport. Now every time a buyer makes a purchase, his e-mail address and other personal information is sent to Microsoft to be verified--and stored in Microsoft's vast database. Passport, which Microsoft plans to roll out in force this fall, already has more than 50 affiliated sites. But Starbucks.com may be the only one that forces buyers...
...another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation-blue Police PDA. Flip open the lid, press a button and the detailed files of some 300,000 criminal suspects are just a tap away. Given the size of China's vast law-and-order bureaucracy, Zhang hopes eventually to sell several hundred thousand Police PDAs to the security ministry. Next up, says Zhang, is a medical PDA that will store case records and allow doctors to write on-the-spot case notes and prescriptions, using Chinese character-recognition software...