Word: wastebasket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place that harbors the most medical wasteis right in your own home," added Bander. "You cutyour-self, put on a band-aid and later throw it inthe wastebasket. That's medical waste...
...within the medical field and among parents concern is growing that too many youngsters are being incorrectly labeled and improperly medicated. Hyperactivity has become a convenient diagnostic wastebasket into which doctors and impatient parents, teachers and school administrators toss too many hard-to-handle children. Says pediatrician Martin Baren of Orange, Calif.: "Kids get diagnosed with this when the problem is something else, like a language or learning disability." Or they may be simply rambunctious. A recent study revealed that of 200 children brought to the University of Chicago's ADHD clinic, 40% did not suffer from hyperactivity...
...himself. Disaster. Watching the preacher divine the contents of sealed envelopes handed him by his parishioners, Randi, then 15, was outraged. "He was using the old 'one-ahead' method," Randi explains, still indignant. Striding to the pulpit, he fished one of the opened envelopes out of a wastebasket and accused the preacher of cheating. An uproar followed, and Randi was arrested for disturbing a religious meeting. At the police station, he vowed that he would someday fight back against those who defiled...
...scene, the secretary (Fanny Ardant) has just found a mysterious scrap of paper in a wastebasket of a hotel room Mme. Vercel once stayed in. Wandering out into a strange neighborhood, she walks a few blocks, then happens to climb a high wooden fence, behind which an announcer for a horse race happens, just at that moment, to call out the cryptic words that--surprise--happened to be scribbled on the note. This happens again and again; the movie, in fact, stops just short of producing the name of the murderer as a cerealbox prize. Consequently, Vercel and company...
REGISTRATION PACKETS are notorious for containing a large number of papers which usually go from envelope to hand to wastebasket. Aside from the dreaded but necessary study card, assorted Harvard bureaucratic fluff is foisted semi-annually upon the unwitting registrant. But last Wednesday a slightly more interesting sheet emerged from the crowd...