Word: answer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mopping the floor until 4 a.m. may be sick after work, yet has to be ready to go back on the job the next day because if he doesn't work he doesn't get paid. Where does he get a doctor at 4 a.m.?" For many people the answer used to be walk-in health clinics; but when funding for these clinics started drying up, some closed their doors...
Another, perhaps inevitable, answer is to ration health care more scrupulously. Already many hospital administrators are arguing that less money should be spent on highly specialized care -- patients with terminal conditions, babies born with multiple defects who are not expected to live long, elderly patients in need of organ transplants. "We have to let some babies die, some old people die," says Dr. John West, a trauma-care expert at the University of California at Irvine. "We have to look at the quality of life, and we have to look at the return on our health-care buck. You just...
...could not answer that because I think the Lord taught us not to speculate on the time of his return. Even in the Middle Ages they expected Christ to come at any time after the great plague in Europe, where 1 out of 3 people died. I personally think things are now converging for the first time in history, fulfilling the prophecies that he himself made about his coming. I had a German scientist say to me the other day that from a scientific point of view, man is almost at the end now. He was not talking about religion...
...everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency. One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while...
...actress turned animal-rights crusader is angry about the indifference of French officials: "If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the government...