Word: overwhelm
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...Orleans has a more immediate problem: its health-care system. "Should we have another hurricane, multiple accidents, a major fire or a flu epidemic, it could overwhelm our system," warns Dr. Breaux. Fewer than 15% of the doctors are back, nurses are in short supply and medical records are missing or destroyed. The Navy hospital ship is gone, replaced by a makeshift treatment center that moved out of tents and into the New Orleans Convention Center last week. Level One trauma care, for the most seriously wounded, is available only in the next parish. "If you're in a major...
...character awakening to and experiencing the world around him, “Elizabethtown” is about a character learning to accept his life and all its shortcomings, or, as Claire puts it, to “wallow in the delicious misery.” The quick cuts that overwhelm upon Drew’s first meeting his family in Kentucky are replaced by calmer shots at the end, and, like Drew, we are finally able to see the beauty in his surroundings despite (or perhaps due to his acceptance of) the frequent disarray. Ultimately, the film succeeds because Crowe...
...dive instructor, but there was little he could do for the victims. He and several of his friends tried to set up a triage, with the most likely to live treated first, but chaos and panic, as well as the severity of the wounds, threatened to overwhelm their efforts. It took a half hour for the first ambulance to arrive; in the meantime, Chilton other bystanders managed to flag down a few taxis to take wounded to the hospital...
...argued that offense was "good" and defense was "bad." McNamara explained to a skeptical Kosygin that if both sides restricted their defenses, they could afford to limit their offenses; while each would need enough weapons to retaliate against an attack, neither would feel it needed a surplus to overwhelm enemy defenses. Thus the arms race could be regulated and mutual deterrence assured...
...about the rule of corporate interests; Friedmanites despair about the reign of witless partisanship. Both groups, but especially the Friedmanites, are appalled by the willingness of politicians-and yes, the press-to let social issues like the life and death of Terri Schiavo and peripheral fights over presidential appointments overwhelm the traditional priorities of economic and foreign policy. But the political landscape may be about to change...