Word: frail
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hell. Pope John Paul II was conducting his regular Wednesday audience on Sept. 6 when there was reportedly a disturbance in the front row. A 19-year-old woman began screaming insults in what Italian newspapers called "a cavernous voice." Struggling with guards, she displayed "a superhuman strength." The frail Pontiff did not hesitate. After the apparent demoniac was hurried to a secluded area, he prayed over her, hugged her and promised to celebrate a Mass for her the next...
...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...
...found a support group, Gilda's Club, named for comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. When Gans arrived for the first meeting, she saw that it was called a "wellness group." But what she needed was a chance to discuss the reality of her impending death--her frail appearance, the sheer mundanity of her days. "I'm not into talking about, 'Maybe they're going to find a drug for me,'" she explained...
...there are substantive questions too about whether market forces will work as Bush and others promise when profit-driven corporations are called upon to provide care for what Diane Rowland, a health expert for the Kaiser Commission on Medicare and the Uninsured, calls "some of our most vulnerable, frail and lowest-income people." Simply put, would the elderly be able to buy an adequate plan with the sort of subsidy Bush wants to give them? As people near the end of their lives, growing steadily sicker, is it choice they need--or reliable support...
GEORGE W. BUSH Having a problem with verbal slips on champagne frail. After good run, is it a blip or a trend...