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...ceiling on the amount a hospital can increase its budget in a year--have forced hospitals to juggle their budgets, often cutting important programs. Because of the stringent state caps, many local hospitals have done away with their "I.V. teams" or technicians responsible for putting needles and catheters into veins. Without I.V. teams, patients must let interns fresh out of medical school take their chances at hitting a vein...
...misspelled as Aaron. Possible conclusion: Elvis Aron Presley is not buried there. The book comes with a tape of a man who sounds like Elvis and offers Delphic hints of his postmortem life and times. If Brewer-Giorgio fails to convince skeptics, she has profitably tapped a rich vein of quasi-religious longing. Millions may sneer along with Doonesbury and David Letterman at news of Presley's sanctified status, but many believe it. A star may have died, but something is being born. Maybe the Church of Elvis...
...image of the farmer: his supposed independence and self-sufficiency, taps a sympathetic vein among the urban public. They see farmers as the last bastion of the frontier spirit and American individualism. As one Bush strategist put it, the farmer is the "last vestige of American heroism, out there alone with God and the elements...
...appeals to his conscience and presses him to effect social reforms, which he does with remarkable ease and neatness. If Mazursky seems politically naive here, that is to be expected. His Moscow on the Hudson and Beverly Hills were similarly naive. They were also bittersweet comedies, in the same vein as Parador, and none of these movies aspires to anything much higher than that...
...Biden was rushed to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for eight hours of cranial surgery, which many patients do not survive. Lying completely still in intensive care afterward led to the development of a blood clot on his lung, which required an operation to implant a filter in a vein. In May he was back on the operating table, for surgery on a second aneurysm. It was a hellish time, but he is completely recovered. "The good news is that I can do anything I did before. The bad news is that I can't do anything better...