Word: patients
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miraculous as learning language may seem, that achievement of Keller's belongs to the 19th century. It was also a co-production with her patient and persevering teacher, Anne Sullivan. Helen Keller's greater achievement came after Sullivan, her companion and protector, died in 1936. Keller would live 32 more years and in that time would prove that the disabled can be independent. I hate the word handicapped. Keller would too. We are people with inconveniences. We're not charity cases. She was once asked how disabled veterans of World War II should be treated and said that they...
...this day, I don't know how he withstood the things he did without lashing back. I've been through a lot in my time, and I consider myself to be a patient man, but I know I couldn't have done what Jackie did. I don't think anybody else could have done it. Somehow, though, Jackie had the strength to suppress his instincts, to sacrifice his pride for his people's. It was an incredible act of selflessness that brought the races closer together than ever before and shaped the dreams of an entire generation...
...Lewis has come to pursue more gradual projects in a more patient fashion, some say this is to be expected...
...Lewis adds that he has become more patient during his time as dean, and Epps says his style of interacting with students has changed as well...
...caps on Medicare spending--federal aid to hospitals--that had helped to pay for the expensive teaching mission of academic medical centers. The cutbacks in Medicare spending came at a particularly difficult time for American hospitals, as private insurers have moved to pay less and less of the per-patient cost of treatment over the last five years, instead ceding this job to less generous managed care programs...