Word: preferments
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...medicine in the U.S. today, almost double the number 20 years ago. Yet huge areas -- 18 counties in Texas alone -- have none. Rural America, like many inner cities, is facing a crisis in primary care. Communities need about 35,000 more general practitioners, according to most estimates. Doctors typically prefer more lucrative practices as specialists and surgeons (who can earn more than $300,000 a year, compared with the average family practitioner's income of $96,000). The shortage of general practitioners leads to wasteful use of medical resources. Without a family doctor to keep track of their overall health...
...mandatory rookie orientation program that includes a seminar on AIDS and a dramatized enactment of problems a player may face regarding women and friends. More and more N.B.A. teams are flying charter and unloading their athletes onto buses parked right on the tarmac. Some teams visiting Phoenix prefer hotels near the Coliseum to the Westcourt hotel, 10 miles away. The Utah Jazz books rooms at a hotel in New Jersey even when they are playing at Madison Square Garden. "New York has too much," says the team's president, Frank Layden...
...prefer Peninsula's sympathetic "Caritas" to gay-bashing campaigns, but both methods operate from the same flawed assumption: that homosexuality is a moral fault that should be corrected. Peninsula is free to draw whatever conclusions it wants from this assumption. We feel equally free to reject those conclusions...
...dinner table here in College. We can guarantee that it has. What is at question, however, is how that debate is to be carried on, and for the quality of that conversation, the council, Guardians, Auxiliares of Peninsula must bear no small share of responsibility. To St. Thomas I prefer that stout Protestant Richard Baxter, whose instruction might yet serve us even in such painful matters as these...
That is why we need federal politics to be more like local politics. What's that? I'm politically apathetic? I prefer smut over substance? Government isn't supposed to entertain? I've given up on '92 and basically Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court in general. If I can't have good government, I want fun government. I want entertaining budget crises (like my home town investing $25 million in a nuclear power plant that's still not operational and may never be), not endless excuses for deficits of hundreds of billions of dollars. I want administrative idiocy...