Word: patient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dumb Croat coal miner. Had I met him, I would have told him so," Maxwell snarls with characteristic restraint. Some American publishers insist that he overpaid by as much as $1 billion for Macmillan. Not so, says Maxwell. "Information is growing at 20% a year," he explains in patient, professorial tones. "Communications is where oil was ten years ago. There will be seven to ten great global communications corporations. My ambition is to be one of them. You can't have a world communications enterprise without the U.S., which has 80% of the software and half the scientific information...
...come with respectable finishes. But Norman continues to take enormous gambles going for the win, and he has shown class in winning as well as losing. After coming from four strokes back to win the Heritage Classic last spring, he gave his trophy to Jamie Hutton, a young leukemia patient he had invited to accompany him during play. The gesture so moved tournament officials and television announcers that for a moment none of them could speak...
Brown was the doctor and his patient, the Kansas basketball team, has been left in critical condition after an almost-fatal ordeal with the NCAA. He is guilty of malpractice...
...what has Dukakis done to alienate so many doctors? Well for starters, Massachusetts is the only state where a doctor must agree to balanced billing when he receives his license--that is, when treating Medicare patients he is not allowed to charge above what Medicare will pay, even if the patient can afford...
THEIR constituency doesn't worry about the disease-they figure it can't affect them. As an AIDS patient said in a recent speech, "If I am dying from anything, it's the fact that not enough rich, white, heterosexual men have gotten AIDS for anyone to give a shit...