Word: patient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...things from the boat that, from the road, are hidden." Agreed passenger Hamilton Perkins Jr.: "We've made 35 trips to Europe, and this was the best ever. It's the most beautiful countryside I've ever seen." Those wishing to follow in their wake will have to be patient. The ship is almost fully booked for the 1989 season...
...year-old men complaining of chest pains and shortness of breath head for their doctors' offices. In both cases, angiograms show that the patients are suffering from partly blocked arteries. But at this point the medical paths of these men, with identical symptoms but different doctors, may diverge radically. One man lives in Beverly Hills, and the chances that he will have coronary-bypass surgery are nearly twice as high as they are for the other man, who lives in Pasadena, just 20 miles away. The Pasadena patient is more likely to be treated with drugs and a modified diet...
Like all AIDS care, other drugs showing promise in the lab will be expensive. At typical dosages, AZT costs each patient about $7,000 a year, and pentamidine up to $1,200. Since more than 1 million people in the U.S. are believed to be infected with the virus, the national AIDS medical bill is expected to soar to between $4.5 billion and $8.5 billion a year by 1991. Moreover, the demand for outpatient services, nursing homes and housing for AIDS patients is expected to overwhelm health care systems in the hardest-hit cities...
...this former mental patient get past the checkpoints? The screening devices were inspected and found to be working properly. "We really have no reason to question the effectiveness of our security in Los Angeles," said an American Airlines spokesman. But the Federal Aviation Administration is not satisfied: in March the agency reported that American had failed to detect weapons in 24 security tests in 1988, the worst performance among the 26 carriers that were fined. If the FAA determines that American let the hijack weapons get through, said an agency spokeswoman, "the carrier would certainly be subject...
...Guantanamera on a harpsichord. A Cuban emigre himself, Santeiro has a dead-on eye and ear for people, from the fiercely pretentious grandmother who wants everyone to forget she used to keep pigs to the nosy, noisy maid whose fractured syntax includes the news that an acquaintance is a patient at "Mount Cyanide." In Santeiro's shrewdest insight, the villain is not a religious humbug but a larcenous Lothario masquerading as an embodiment of the work ethic, and the cant he peddles is based on an immigrant assimilationist version of the American Dream...