GPs have been waiting in vain for a shift in funding from acute to primary care.
Nor the state — carriage horses trotting eversteady blinders acute to the eye.
Funding has to be moved from acute to primary care, which means shutting some hospital services.
But by trusting the melancholic colours in the score, his productions are the most emotionally acute to date.
Mr. Anderszewski offered a daringly spacious account in which sensations of isolation and longing were almost too acute to bear.
A rape joke by a man has to be really funny and socially acute to be worth hearing.
To add insult to injury, he went on to live, "physically hale and intellectually acute, to the age of 100".
In each case, in different ways, the following questions become acute: to whom is the state responsible?
Its powers of hearing are not sufficiently acute to pick up a conversation, for example.
The emphasis will shift from acute to chronic conditions, and from treatment to prevention.
And to add to his offences against the humble human average, he has survived, physically hale and intellectually acute, to the age of 100.
