"As a family physician, I hear stories weekly of physicians who discount the lived experiences of women," Dr. Elizabeth Allemann, who has a practice in Columbia, Mo., wrote on the Annals website.
She sits on a New Orleans police car that slowly sinks underwater as images flash past, powerful evocations of blackness: bodies, hair, quiet faces measuring how others have discounted their lives and moved on.
The sentence read: "Persons living in a county with a substantial African-American or people-of-color population are more likely to have their vote spoiled or discounted than persons living in the rest of Florida".
The cost of productive time lost due to permanent disability among persons of various age groups was obtained by multiplying the total number of permanently disabled diabetics, discounted average duration lived with diabetes (DAD) per person, and gross national income per capita per year (GNIPC).
Discount electronics and discount lives.
But merely to be discounted because of where I live -- on a scale of 1 to 10 in the fatal flaw department, that's a 2. "And if I'm only a G.U.," I asked, "does it follow I'm a P.D. in looks, brains, and personality?" "What's a P.D.?" Carole asked.
The studio was so discounted that I could live there more cheaply than in any shared apartment in Manhattan.
On a recent Saturday afternoon, a woman walked around the scattered picnic tables advertising shots at a discount, to liven up the margaritas.
Matt Noffs, the chief executive of the Ted Noffs Foundation, said he would marshall a contingent to "bring the message to Sheriff Morrison that this is first and foremost an issue about humans and putting people above the ideas of law and order and discounting the lives of drug users".
Gov. George E. Pataki signed it on Aug. 31, but the law is being honored only on the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North, non on the buses and subways in the city -- where the vast majority of those eligible for the discount happen to live.
