With Britain mired in a carnivorous scandal last winter (horse DNA was found in "beefburgers" processed by the meat multinationals Findus and Comigel), "Idiopathy" benefits as much from timeliness as from the slow, cud-chewing digressions native only to the novel, and, perhaps, to the four substomachs of cattle.
DeLillo's too fine of a sentence-maker to ever write a truly bad book, but the end of the Cold War seemed to have stripped him of much of his timeliness, most of his drive, and almost all of his sense of humor.
In other words, timely investigations are an important safeguard, but timeliness may not say much about whether caseworkers are making the right decisions.
Much has been made about the timeliness of "Sweat," the way it sheds light on the national schisms that have made this election such a horror to live through and the platform it has provided embittered workers who have lost their foothold in the middle class.
Robin Shuster, director of the 14th and U and Bloomingdale markets, offers cooking tips with the brevity and assurance of Elizabeth David and the timeliness and relevance of someone much closer to home.
While such studies have contributed significantly to our understanding of GPs' experiences of diagnosing dementia and factors impacting on early diagnosis, none has considered specifically the much used but poorly understood concept of timeliness.
But his biggest hits have always relied on their timeliness (an M.C. Hammer song wouldn't make much sense today), and his songs, like much of the pop he has skewered, haven't aged especially well.
It's too bad because while the web is better in some regard (timeliness of the news), it's much worse in others (the presentation).
You'll notice that urgency is one of our core values, but that doesn't mean "work until you die" as much as it means "work intensely and practice timeliness," encouraging excellence along with a work life balance.
Timeliness was something that GPs defined much more in terms of kairos than chronos.
