Word: case
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...placed him in the ambulance. It left the scene at 7:05 p.m., just 13 minutes after St. Andrew and Tayenaka got the call. St. Andrew monitored Tony's blood pressure while he cradled a portable phone and asked a county trauma center for permission to bring in the case. He tried to insert an IV needle, but the boy, who spoke no English, cried and resisted. "No moveas," St. Andrew cajoled in semi-Spanish. An impatient nurse on the phone demanded a blood- pressure reading. Suddenly Tony stopped crying. St. Andrew shook him gently: "Antonio, Antonio!" The boy began...
...again while St. Andrew and Tayenaka were still in the parking lot, and they took off at top speed. Arriving with the siren blaring, they found a man who had cut his hand in a minor traffic accident and wanted hospital care. A county-contracted private ambulance took the case. "He'll get a bill," said Tayenaka, "but nobody pays." Later a drunken partygoer fell and cut his head slightly; he wanted an ambulance...
...Installation I learned how all this works from a KGB officer who'd had the job of sorting files. In every case, the first page of a file was retained. If a person had been executed, an affidavit that the death sentence had been carried out had to be included, along with the serial number of the pistol used...
...concluding excerpt from Memoirs recounts how his activism infuriated the KGB and led to his exile. -- Was Solzhenitsyn friend or foe? -- Who killed Baikal? -- The case for nuclear power...
...realized that resistance was useless and, in any case, we no longer had the strength. The KGB agents went outside. We kissed. Tears came to my eyes. Lusia said bitterly, "And on Tanya's anniversary...