Word: vitalness
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...Amartya Sen has made a number of noteworthy contributions to central fields of economic science and opened up new fields of study," read a statement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the prize. "He has restored an ethical dimension to the discussion of vital economic problems...
...when we get inside a polling booth or fill out an absentee ballot, that vital democratic link is still there--the link that puts power in our hands and roots the legitimacy of the elected in the populace. My absentee vote for Bill Clinton was probably never even counted in 1996. But when I see or hear or read about him, I think of the Clinton Presidency as an institution I helped create...
...think it's vital that the contract negotiation team has a say on the board and that the board have a say on the contract negotiations," she said...
...spent his first two weeks here on a ward that has thus far seen no deaths. But tonight, from 6 p.m. until 6 a.m., he is the on-call chaplain for the entire hospital. In his pocket is a sky-blue beeper that will sound the moment someone's vital signs fail. He wonders how he will respond. Last night's on-call was faced with the death of an eight-year-old boy mangled by dogs. "I don't know if I could have..." Baker begins and then trails...
DCRI has been designed to find vital but frequently obscure medical information. Califf's favorite illustration involves an antiarrhythmia drug that had passed clinical trials, was approved by the FDA and was being given to thousands of patients before it was discovered that the drug was killing some patients. "You'd think that doctors would notice people falling over dead," says Califf. "But these things happen over years." These problems not only happen over time; they also often happen in patients who had other medical conditions that might have killed them. And they happen amid a large pool of people...