Word: waited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year? Although their early exits from the playoffs put an end to the dreams of many long-suffering fans, at least we don't have to worry about the apocalyptic implications of a World Series featuring the perennially-cursed ballclubs. But, the way things have been going lately...just wait 'til next year...
Under this system, though, accidents of geography can create dramatic inequities. A patient who could afford to wait in, say, Dallas might get an organ that could have gone to someone on the brink of death in nearby Fort Worth, Texas. Varying patterns of supply and demand can create tenfold differences in waiting times. According to computer models cited by the government, these inefficiencies cost as many as 300 lives each year. Says John Fung, transplant director at the University of Pittsburgh: "There's no justification to keep the current system...
...political wrangling leaves potential transplant patients in limbo, adding uncertainty to the anguish they already suffer. Like Bryan Lee, Rita May Bolen has had enough. From her home in a New Orleans suburb, she calmly says her husband Leon, 71, is "sitting in a chair dying." They have been waiting 10 months for a liver. In August Leon was second in line for an organ that was about to become available, but it went to a sicker patient, a young father. "It's the fairest way," says Rita May. But watching the debate over regulatory changes--which could have...
...Surveys on the White House scandal reflect our views precisely. When the Sunday talk-show commentators whom I refer to as the Sabbath Gasbags pontificate confidently on how The American People are going to respond, the Gasbags are always wrong. In January my wife and I sometimes had to wait for a survey result to find that out. Not anymore. We now realize...
...time of the big switch, so now that the Dow has gone south, it might be wise to roll back into a traditional tax-deferred IRA and then instantly reconvert into a tax-free Roth, potentially lightening your tax load come next April 15. But don't wait too long to roll over: the IRS could amend the rules this fall to restrict the tricky savings maneuver...