Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fail to provide effective leadership, says Moss, "the street merchants of hate move into the vacuum." Last week Dinkins mused about his role in repairing the cracks in New York's gorgeous mosaic. Said he: "No one ever knows if one has done enough." That realization could be the start of doing something more...
...large cities and small towns, the emergency room is the abused child of American medicine. Overburdened, understaffed and underfinanced, emergency departments across the country are reeling from multiple blows. Start with 37 million patients who have no health insurance. Add a graying population with a growing need for expensive treatment. Subtract government reimbursements, which often cover only half the cost of treating the poor. Factor in the effects of the AIDS epidemic and drug violence. Under such pressures, the miracle is that the system shows any vital signs...
...busiest hospitals, emergency-room personnel minister to an average of 200 patients in a single, brutal twelve-hour shift, while stretchers stack up in the waiting rooms, hallways and even closets. Staffers eat large meals before going on duty, since there will be no breaks once they start. They treat wounds they hoped never to see outside a war zone: it is to Los Angeles, which had more automatic-weapons victims than Beirut last year, that the U.S. Army sends its physicians for combat training, at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. "What gives out is not patient care...
...every dollar of that eight-year campaign was budgeted from the start. Especially for the circulating libraries, N.Y.P.L. is dependent on money from the city, and New York has been in worse than usual straits since the 1987 stock-market crash. "I think I was chosen because they wanted someone who could care enormously about both the research and branch aspects of the library," says Healy. As a scholar, he acknowledges that he is more attuned to the 88 miles of stacks at the main library, one of the half a dozen foremost research libraries in the world...
...zeal to yoke public schools with libraries springs from his long commitment to the poor, particularly members of minorities. He firmly believes that in the future, America will be "multicolored" and had better be ready to make the most of it. Some 16 years ago, he tried to start a community college in the Bedford Stuyvesant ghetto in Brooklyn (it failed for lack of funding). Perhaps the high point of his career was the years at CUNY where, with fighting-Irish brio, he led the fray surrounding the open-admissions policy, in the early '70s a divisive urban issue...