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I think we need more acute care. What if you're too sick to be transferred to San Antonio?

We're turning into the most acute period of what I would call the 'early warning season' for the next quarterly earnings announcements.

This result underscores our concern about GM's earnings concentration, which may be even more acute than we have estimated.

Joe Thompson

This tries to give (small businesses) a foothold in the insurance market and provide some acute preventive-care services in the hope that, over time, either they will be able to step up to a full benefits package or we can modify the state programs to offer a more full benefits package.

We as physicians have spent a great deal of time studying how best to treat our patients while in the hospital, so now we need to focus on better understanding the barriers to improved compliance outside of acute medical settings. This will be a much more difficult problem, since it involves so many different factors.

But sensitivities are certainly more acute this year.

Aristotle

The eyes of some persons are large, others small, and others of a moderate size; the last-mentioned are the best. And some eyes are projecting, some deep-set, and some moderate, and those which are deep-set have the most acute vision in all animals; the middle position is a sign of the best disposition.

Today's manufacturing output figures were ... worse than the market expected. The sector continues to stagnate and is persistently failing to sustain a recovery. The figures also confirm that the sector was in technical recession in the first half of 2005, ... The manufacturing sector's acute underlying weaknesses reinforce our view that we will need further interest rate cuts later in the year.

Kathleen Sebelius

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

The problem we are facing is huge. The acute demand is leading to supply-side shortages.

Roman Jakobson

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Those having a heart attack will have a far lower risk of having a second heart attack, a stroke, or their death rate is lowered almost a quarter. Aspirin has the best benefit to risk ratio and benefit to cost ratio of any therapy of acute heart attacks.

You have the most acute health-care workforce shortage in the country.

Lucius Accius

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and died because of chemical exposure in World War I.

Octavian Paler

The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'

What's most tragic is that this denial of basic education leads to over 1 million unnecessary child and maternal deaths a year. Moreover, children who have never seen the inside of a classroom are precisely those that face the most acute poverty, and should be the prime target of the international community if it is at all serious about realizing the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

What these folks are saying is that if you use this conditioning regimen, you can get very good results and you eliminate or you greatly minimize acute GVHD, ... You keep the good effects while reducing the bad.

We've been monitoring. All persons showing high temperature and strange progress of acute respiratory illnesses are examined for possible detection of the bird flu virus, especially if the patient had contact with domestic birds.

E. P. Thompson

We're talking about the first time, hopefully, that we would have a strategic plan for California's future. So often government is an esoteric concept for people, but here and now there is an acute connection between the people and deciding the services government should provide.

While there are a lot of chemicals in the water, they probably don't rise to the level of an acute toxin. Probably the biggest danger right now is the sewage.

The issue of school overcrowding has been more acute lately. If we don't work out the problem . . . we're going to be forced to shut down all development that is not age-restricted, and that would be a mistake.

Not only is he as mentally acute as the average 77-year-old, he's as acute as the average 27-year-old. He has a phenomenal mind and very good judgment, ... People close to the decision-making at the Fed are almost unanimously in great praise of him, as I would be. I think it's a wonderful thing for the Fed and for the country that he's being kept on.

Samuel Bodman

The need to use energy more wisely is particularly acute this year because of the higher prices we expect to see, ... We have had a severe disruption in the last few weeks in the energy infrastructure of this country.

They diagnosed it as an acute injury, something that happened on that pitch.

They develop stress fractures and tendonitis due to the fact that they're not resting their muscles and they keep over-using them, ... These injuries are more serious and harder to treat than acute injuries. They can lead to chronic pain and arthritis in later life.

If you saw what I did plus the MRI scan, that's not an acute injury from him just getting back.

Because there is no way to tell (in the short term) whether symptoms are from a TIA or an acute stroke, patients should assume that all stroke-like symptoms signal an emergency and should not wait to see if they go away,

Hospitals are in the business of providing a certain level of acute care.

IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.

Jay Rockefeller

I am saddened to learn of Bob's passing. Bob was an outstanding journalist and an acute political observer.

But there's still almost 30 percent of patients in a recent survey that weren't getting aspirin during an acute heart attack.

They responded inappropriately and very late to the acute problems he was having in the hospital.