It could thrash too and get plenty dark, as in "Take This Life," a contemplating-suicide song, but there was a voice of reason waiting in the chorus.
As the country watched scenes of devastation from Hurricane Irene, thousands of history and engineering buffs were on edge for another reason, waiting to hear the fate of hundreds of antique covered bridges that dot the Eastern Seaboard and that are especially concentrated — and beloved — in the unexpectedly ravaged state of Vermont.
CONSIDER AN ALTERNATIVE If you have recently lost your job, your Cobra coverage has run out or you're without health insurance for any other reason, waiting six months until you are eligible for the new risk pools may not be your best option.
Unfortunately, that didn't work, so they killed J. F. K. the next year, and then, for some reason, waited another five years before getting rid of Bobby.
If Ramy has to be postponed for any reason, wait until after Ramy to make your sacrifice.
For ethical reasons waiting list controls have been preferred to no treatment controls, provided the wait is still shorter than that for routine services.
Overall, 43% of the variance in patient satisfaction was explained by the final set of predictors (p <.05) included: age, first visit, reason for being seen (routine versus other reasons), waiting time, and visit time.
For example, an Australian study of people's reasons for having private medical insurance showed how 'public' reasons (waiting lists, choice of practitioner, quality of care, hotel services) were contradicted by people's actual personal experiences.
Pain (> 5 on VAS scale for activity), logistical reasons (waiting for blood transfusion, for physiotherapy, and for postoperative radiographs), and patient-related factors (feeling insecure) were responsible for this delay.
Because of logistic reasons (waiting time for radiotherapy), all patients started with 2 weeks (days 1 14) of monotherapy with capecitabine 1000 mg m−2 twice a day (b.i.d)., after which a non-treatment week (day 15 21) followed.
In most regions the main reason for patients occupying a hospital bed without medical reason were waiting lists for nursing homes and home care, "enabling" factors [ 17].
